Do game devs need to respect our time better? Can shorter games be better?

[Darashiva]

Depends entirely on the game. I can easily spend 100+ hours playing through a game like Elden Ring, but with some other games I might begin to lose interest well before I get even 10 hours in. Then there are games I still consider great, but which would have greatly benefited from significant cutting down, like Xenoblade Chronicles or Dragon Quest XI. I enjoyed both games, but I probably would have liked them even more 15 to 20 hours shorter. Obviously, some games like 2D platformers, horror games, FPS games, and various others generally work best somewhere between 10 to 20 hours long, and trying to stretch the content further often ends up feeling frustrating and annoying.