Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that?

Involvement. Because no matter how perfect the gameplay is, if you use your brain occaisonally, you should ask yourself WHY? Why am i doing it.

If you play since the 80‘s, you hit, flew, drove, shot, build and puzzled almost everything.

Stories consist of motivations. Otherwise there is nothing of consequence going on. But cheer up. There are many more people like you, Stanley. Push the button. Keep pushing it.