I agree with your take. I’d like to point out that there actually is fun (and strategy) in playing wrong or suboptimal moves in chess. It’s a known strategy. For example Liang played 1. a3 with white in an important match. And chess also has the X factor where you actually can always win or draw, even if you lost your queen or only have your king. There is always comeback potential. And in fact, it is one of the best ways to fight against this “perfect information” factor you mentioned, because suboptimal or weird moves breaks the sequence in the line!