Maybe… maybe this is the next stage of enshittification? When enshittification has so utterly destroyed a company that it’s essentially worth nothing, there’s only two options: it dies, or the remaining employees who actually care about it buy it in an attempt to save it.
I’ll second the recommendation of Dorfromantik, and I’ll also add Islanders, which has a similar vibe but different visuals and gameplay.
In both cases, you’re given pieces that need to be placed on the map in order to score points, and that’s the extent of a round, which makes it very easy to play for a couple of minutes, then put it down until later.
When I first played Skyrim, I spent so long just wandering around, harvest every mountain flower I found, that every time I saw a bush with flowers, I felt the urge to harvest them because obviously that’s just what you do when you see something that can be harvested. The dopamine hit from resource gathering is very real.