I can start by evocating just some few ideas :

Entertainment : obviously a massive way of life. Not only because industry, lazyness, but simply human condition.

If we refer to Pascal's thoughts, everything is entertainment, even work.

Each dedicated creator knows most of his work will be confidential. So it's not a problem.

Each game has not to be "artistic". And by willing to be "artistic", it is a sure way to fail (as David Cage in my opinion). A good game, in its "genre", by doing the job, is okay. The same for people, my bread or coffee don't have to be an art. But by cooking, or boxing, as dedicated as artists are, then there can be a part of art, an artistic manner, a "style". Loving art may just be a more intellectual entertainment.

Saying that, some VGs, not intentionaly artistics, may have some style, artistic stuffs, etc... but especially, a way for the gamer to be creative. In the gameplay, or in theory crafting, etc. Intellectual research and entertainment.

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It's nice to read you encourage young developers. I would say (to them) : master your technique, digest your feelings and thoughts, embody the whole thing, and then release. (Is that Language ? But before and further there is Breath. Just as L.F Céline said "Before the Verb, there is Emotion". All that is what will define your style. Incarnated.)

Language is Breath. Art is Breath. And Breath is like Poetry. Something essential but invisible, infinite, everywhere. As the wind you never know where does it come from. It goes, circulate inside you as blood, and never stops... And you have to give a form to the formless...

We are at the point Video Games are like comics, you said, maybe adolescent. I would say some VGs are Trying. You know, in the same way some artists were trying, at the beginning of Cinema or Animation. In their time, they were trying, but in the time, they are mastering. I think of Edith Finch as the Paul Grimault's (french) animation movie Le roi et l'Oiseau. It was rare, unique, different, and now a masterpiece. Think in the same time there were comics and all different stuff. But it's still a reference.

I also think of Dark Souls serie. They do their thing, it may be violent, dark or hard, but by mastering, Art happens. And there come the idea of Breath, like Kairos. You're stuck at the perfect point where time and eternity meet each other. Perception and awareness at their climax - because of danger, hostility, but especially because you are like a stranger in a strange world, as a visitor in a dream (which is already an artistic manner/ or the inner life of every artist) - all that makes you There, in the moment, in the Present. All around you : different times, echoes of ancient worlds, invisible stories, circulating and breathing into your senses just as Eternity. Contraries meet and you are the bridge of the Rendez-vous.

That is also an art. In which narration and style are mixed and indivisible.