Yeah, I have stopped really caring for competitive games for 3 or 4 years, if not more, now. Playing with friends can be a blast tho, and that's what I do when it's a competitive game. Usually it's league of legends for me, but I play very little of it now, which is to be expected when you play the same game for a decade lol.

Gaming in general for the past years have been tough for me because despite genuinely loving it, my mental health have steadily declined to the point I have trouble even starting anything, let alone continuing to play something I have started, but right now I'm playing Breath of the Wild and Baldur's Gate 3, both for the first time and let me tell you, I'm having a blast and don't feel like stopping anytime soon. Single-player games are fucking great.

Now, I don't think the issue with competitive games is the fact that someone will get the short end of the stick and not have fun. If that was the case, fighting games would be dead by now. You can absolutely have fun while losing. The issue I have always seen, in league at least, is that you're alone, there's no collective sentiment when playing, no team mentality, most people are hostile and everyone is trying to win in a selfish way and because of that you get frustrated, which eventually turns to anger, and all of that most likely ties to the hyper-individualization of the self under capitalism. Every now and then you find a team that clicks, where everyone communicates and play for each other, instead of in spite of each other, and when it happens it's fucking great, even when you end up losing.