Why Aren't Good iOS Game Devs Making Fun Games?

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Despite the horrendous UI predatory in app purchases and oddly creepy character design, some of the puzzles look kind of fun. Drawing a shape to save the dog or dropping water onto lava to clear a level could be fun if the apps were all designed and the monetization made sense. Why aren't good iOS game devs making this brand of time wasting Instagram friendly game? I would guess because there's no money in it.

Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
Follow-up:
- John’s COVID project
- mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
- Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
- “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
- Adam Wunn on iMazing
- Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
- Bad Apple TV news
- Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
  - Diabeetus
- Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
- Mitigation ideas:
  - Alphanumeric passcodes
    Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
  - Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
  - Screen Time
    - Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
    - Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
  - Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
  - Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
#askatp:
- Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
- Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging levels? (via MaxLaves)
  - Coconut Battery
  - Battery GitHub issue
- Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam