Oddly I get the opposite impression, most of the crappy games on app stores I have a hard time believing that even the developers themselves would ever sit down

Oddly I get the opposite impression, most of the crappy games on app stores I have a hard time believing that even the developers themselves would ever sit down and play for fun. I get the feeling that they targeted some arbitrary demographic and worked through a checklist of features and finished when that was completed rather than iterating on an idea until it was good and working out from there.