This article has such a condescending tone- how is paying for a video game subscription any more harmful to "leisure" than paying for a trip to the beach? Pure clickbait.
The beach just exists. You might live near it or not, there are economics involved, but nobody set you up to go to the beach and designed it to be addictive.
Subscription video-games that were being criticized were those specifically framed to get people hooked and buy more and more special stuff etc.
What's harmful is pushing people into patterns of spending money on leisure when there's lots of ways to have great leisure without the cost. In that sense, marketers who tell people they have to travel to the beach for vacation are also pushing for people to spend on their leisure.
Incidentally, the beach is better than video games.
