I wonder if that’s an intentional or accidental product of the time we live in,
Perhaps from the gambling companies intentional, but it feeds into our "big score" mindset, which might be natural. We seem to want it all as easy as possible.
I assume that all of what we have today, has been from people wanting to do something different. Remember that every political party got into the game to change things, to break tradition, then they become the tradition themselves, just as bad as those they replaced, if not worse.
We definitely can do better and perhaps we are at the technological level that it is possible at scale.