I can easily twist that to: “old people have too much time on their hands. They’d rather waste hours doing the same menial task over and over instead of going straight to the difficult part.”
It’s pointless and stupid to blame players for not wanting to play. You should blame the game itself.
The game is built to keep people playing for longer; not to be fun. It gets to a point that you don’t want to leave do to investment, but you also don’t really want to stay.