At least playing Factorio 18 hours a day would keep them out of our faces for the duration of their term in office.

The difficulty with that is that there are people in the real world actively breaking the systems. Not maliciously, it's just how capitalism works. You can make money by seeing and exploiting inefficiencies in systems, and that changes the system. In a game like Factorio the systems are complex but they don't change under you, which makes analysis much more straightforward.