Yes, but the usual "free games" kids get today, they pay with their attention, and or data, and/or later with real money to make progress in the game.
All the games of my childhood I bought(or pirated) .. were 100% about the game.
vut when I see my niece and nephiew playing and accpeting lots of advertisement all the time in their game, like it's normal, I get a bit sad.
So of course, I push other content to them... but I would say the ordinary kid today, gets a lot worse input today, the I did.
And I would like to see much more real free, open source games out there. But apparently very hard to make money with it..