The amusing thing is we are made to feel guilty for re-selling games rapid-fire despite that behavior being exactly that which is cultivated in us. Similarly, publishers and developers complain about the budget that modern graphics requires, again because that is what behavior is cultivated in us.
Entertainment being competitive strives to outdo other entertainment by having "more" and "bigger" events without a thorough understanding of how those events work. A game is often marketed as "more exciting" if enemies come at you in double the numbers, but we all know that doubling the size of the monster or the number of times it breaks out of a wall exactly on cue doesn't double the value of the entertainment. We also know that constant excitement is not possible as excitement is only achievable contrasted with slower-paced events.
An ideal Silent Hunter for example would not increase the rate of torpedoings and sinkings in some blind dash to "make more exciting" but instead let those events being brilliant in their rarity while doing as much as possible to make the times over than those events enjoyable. Examples could be mechanical breakdowns, better weather, D/F radio modeled, etc.
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