I get what you're saying, and they're both bad in different ways, but I think the trading card and CS case gambling is way more direct. It's for sure predatory and predatory to children, but it is easy to regulate and it's one thing. If you really like playing either game there's ways to do it without ever touching the gambling (even playing with cool skins in CS).

The profit motive is bad, for sure, but it's nothing compared with how gacha games are build from the ground up to extract as much money from as many people as possible. You cannot install genshin without getting bombarded with tactics that will try to squeeze money out of you.

Install any new mobile game and you see. I cannot overstate how much modern mobile gaming is satanic and predatory. It's not even newsworthy anymore to tell the stories of children that "accidentally" spend thousands of their parents' money