> These people never want to actually _play_ a game, or at least they can’t get over their obsession to buy new games

I get what you're saying, but I'm a wanna-be board game person. I do want to try those games! To me, it's like going to a different restaurant every time you go out.

Sure, the point is the time spent, but it doesn't mean that we should go to McDonald's every time.

(I say I'm a wanna-be, because I don't have enough of a combination of friends and time to do this, and crucially, those friends also have to be willing to sit down and probably play one round of a new game after spending just as much time learning the rules. But board game nights with new games do happen - we just all know to pick games that at least one person already knows the rules to, or whose rules are short enough to pick up quickly, or whose gameplay goes quickly enough to get multiple rounds in after learning the rules.)