I think people who claim "gaming is dead" are just burnt out of games. Doing anything for long enough requires you to take a new perspective eventually, otherwise it feels so samey.

Whenever someone talks about how "games aren't fun anymore" and such I always think they either need to take a break and do something else or completely change the way they look at/play games, maybe with a different genre, franchise, era, challenge runs such as speedruns or fan mods, and so on.

I believe it doesn't always work for whatever reason. I had images from my phone get the 'over 8mb' message sometimes only a few months ago as well, sometimes it worked but other times it didn't