Hot take, "friendslop" games are the board games of the modern age
We buy them to play with our friends, and when we've had our fun, they sit on the "shelf" for a while until we decide to play them again
They're a reason to bring friends together

Thinking about how it all was back then, while I was wishing for that future frutiger aero showed me, these thoughts came to me
One day we will look back and remember these games fondly. I already think of them as board games, and people don't consider board games or physical manifestations that bring friends together a waste of money, why should what happens behind a monitor be any different?
ESPECIALLY during the COVID era, these kinds of things were what held friend groups together