>>39377982in effect, smartphones ARE the reason, down at a very core level.
Mobage is the reason people have short attention spans and want things handed on a silver platter. Immediate gratification, or they leave. Normies have always been like that to an extent, their big defining characteristic is going the path of least resistance/highest reward with least effort. It's like living on autopilot. In more recent years, the level of catering to which they've become accustomed has increased as life has become easier. As such, to keep pace, games have to too, especially if other games like gacha are already doing it to try and hook whales with initial lovebombing before they try to trigger the compulsive gambling problems.
