I have been keeping my daughter off of digital games for eight years, and it annoys me that now she is essentially forced into it. People think that as long as the topic of the game is something like math, it must be good. The value of games isn't the topic, but the behaviors that are learned.

Maybe I have blocked out my own struggles learning, but I don’t recall so much whining when the learning got tough

I don't recall much whining from most people from when I was a kid either.