Unfortunately a lot of that is ad filled P2W shovelware

Not much different than Hallmark shovelware

Many people only play free phone games. It tracks. I know people on the internet constantly discount it, but mobile is much too big a platform to ignore in discussions like these

I think the market is confusing gambling with gaming. The two markets don't overlap (or not directly, I'm sure there are people who enjoy both). We pretend they do, but the only thing they share is the technical aspects in producing something. Diablo Immortal clearly highlighted this.

It's equivalent to saying that soccer and basketball are the same game because played both with a ball.

"core gamers" (the gamers that play videogames) are actually "videogamers". Mobile gamers are gamblers.

Of course there are also some videogames in the mobile world, so you can find some core gamers playing videogames on mobile