Yep, nail on the head. I'm on another forum and regularly post about the actual games to silence, one day cards came up, literally everyone owns cards. They wouldn't know a Pikachu from a Pachirisu. I sold some of my older cards on Vinted a few months back and the new found fandom the TCG has genuinely infuriates me. Entitled, aggressive, and almost certainly didn't like the franchise as recent as ten years ago.
The good news is that kids generally still use the cards as they are intended. It’s mostly adults that look at cards in terms of dollar signs. My daughters are voraciously collecting cards basically just because they don’t have easy access to the video games yet lol. One wants to collect all of the pikachus while the other almost has at least one card of every eeveelution
I hate how Pokemon cards these days have been reduced to nothing more than commodities to sell instead of the trading card game they're intended for, but at the same time, I'm really happy that this couple were able to get married.
