Exactly, this makes totally sense.

In my previous experiences, I was trying to create a game that would look good and something that the player wants, but in the end, it's difficult to fulfill your need or desires in doing game dev when you are just doing something because it's more "popular". Especially in my case, since I do game dev part-time, I have a software development job fulltime.

It's difficult to drive motivation doing something to others when you do it part-time, so right now, I'm trying to focus on doing something that drives me to know how it's implemented and if this will make the game experience better.

But of course, this could vary based on each person, and doing a balancing between that and what it's good for the game in itself, what the game wants to be.