Many modern games have taken the trend of just dumbing down the gameplay so that what the player actually has is not at all about challenge, but just an experie

Many modern games have taken the trend of just dumbing down the gameplay so that what the player actually has is not at all about challenge, but just an experience, with some gameplay mechanics as added-value. The puzzle-genre version of this might be otherwise known to you as "casual gaming." Bejeweled, Peggle, etc. take almost no conscious effort to play, even though skill elements exist.