Also, to be clear, I still like what I like, and a lot of what I like is built on decades of my own responses to hitting limits in D&D that were unsatisfying to me and trying to find ways to find that satisfaction. That has accrued into my personal tastes and interests, and I enjoy them a lot.
But it can also be humbling an alienation to recognize them as an edifice I’ve constructed, not some kind of abstractly “better” version of gaming.