Making video games fun does not require anywhere near as much hardware as we typically use in modern systems. I look forward to an eventual return to fun video games.
It wasn't clear from your post, but have you kept up with the PC indie scene of the last decade or so? There's a lot of great small gems on Steam these days that can run on old hardware (or the Deck).
But apparently the golden age is ending, as big publishers this year and last canceled a lot of projects and closed a bunch of studios. Sad, but there's still a huge backlog of great titles to go through.