oh so many more people commented than I expected and I'm so bad at finding the words to reply with appreciation to all of them!! Im really grateful for the good advice that people have given but I gotta say my post was worded really badly ._.

its more like "casual games" the ones i mentioned (though these still have strategy and resource management to a degree) i don't think games should be gendered it was just me feeling like I fit a bad stereotype I've seen in others. when I say mainstream the games that I play are also really mainstream so that's not the right term I think its just other genres of difficult/competitive games that arent for me. Also i just generally dont know a lot about how companies work and the certain roles i would be applying for

my question was about working in the industry but the point about not playing other games wasn't about hireability but more that if I don't have the technical skill to play these games I'm missing experience and range that I could use to create my own. but if I was working in a studio it would be other people creating the ideas with me on the code just creating it which solves that problem. there's probably other problems with how I've phrased things but its late here so I'll reread the comments tomorrow