The problem is that a lot of activities in real life work in a similar way to gambling. Human relationships tend to have the right amount of random in it to bui

The problem is that a lot of activities in real life work in a similar way to gambling. Human relationships tend to have the right amount of random in it to build habits too. Gambling as a mechanism can't really be banned. Everything slowly optimizes towards that same behavior. Simply following the metrics of "more use engagement" and "more money" will land you there when your start off with a bit of random chance. So if you ban gambling you'll have games that are totally-not-gambling-but-somehow-work-like-slots.