I think you get a lot more tryhards these days because many want to be streamers, and streaming is a source of revenue. Just like the rest of the internet, when money got in the mix, it fucked up the vibe.

But there's nothing preventing you from continuing to game until you're damn well good and tired of it.

That's de Sade in a nutshell: telling you what a libertine he thinks he is, while being endlessly repetitive to make sure you remember that rules are being broken. Aims for transgressive, lands on boring. Justine is like that, too; after a while it's less "oh no, poor Justine, set upon by all these creatures of lust" and more "what haven't they done yet? let's tuck that in. Oh we did that? Let's triple it up".