At first I thought this woman was a dipshit who had the same attitude towards this that I did towards Fromsoft games back before I'd played any of them. "Why spend all this time Gitting Gud when you can do something actually productive in the real world, NO THANKS"
Well, that viewpoint was wrong and sucked ass and I changed it once I knew better.
But after thinking on it a little more, she's kinda right. These kids are like 13, in the prime of their youth, spending untold hours moving blocks back and forth on a screen, gasping for air like a beached trout when they accomplish something in the game. Nothing about it is healthy. I mean more power to them, competitive Tetris seems pretty cool and I sure as fuck am not that good, but given the ages of the kids involved you gotta wonder if the whole thing isn't SUPER unhealthy.
Also if you go and watch the twitch streams of any older speedrunners (Zoast comes to mind) who have been playing the same game over and over again for years and making money from it, they seem so goddamn tired on the streams. Like it's a total obligation for them to get on there yet again. It seems like hell to me, as someone who has played a huge amount of games in the last 35 years.