People care about the complexity in those games only because of the legacy culture and competitions I think this is less than half true. People wouldn't care a

People care about the complexity in those games only because of the legacy culture and competitions I think this is less than half true. People wouldn't care about those games, if they didn't have the amount of emergent complexity that they do. It would be more accurate to say that they soak up so much attention because of legacy culture and competitions. But those wouldn't exist, if those games didn't have certain qualities which made them eminently interesting and replayable in the first place. Could they have been replaced through different accidents of history with other games entirely? Sure. But those games would have had many of the same qualities.