What's up with people not actually wanting to PLAY the game...?

I'm not trying to be weird or mean or whatever about this, I'm genuinely confused.

I see posts occasionally wanting to play as pups. On the surface level it sounds like a cool idea, but whenever I think a bit more deeply about it, I just wonder... why? What would you actually do as a pup? What gameplay would there actually be? I get maybe you could play with siblings but that would get boring really quick. Watching the same pup animations over and over again wouldn't actually be interesting. I get that some people find territory marking boring, but I feel like playing as a pup would be even worse.

The gameplay would basically be: - Come out of den - Play with siblings (and watch the exact same pup animations over and over again without any engaging gameplay) - Hide in den when parents woof - Repeat

Like I know some people find WolfQuest quite repetitive, but playing as a pup would make it significantly MORE repetitive and there wouldn't actually be anything engaging or fun about it. I love the addition of the bouncy trot and the ability to play with pack mates like that, but if you were playing as a pup that would basically be the entire game. Maybe later on you can learn to hunt small prey, but that would be just as engaging as catching snowshoe hates as an adult.

So my question is- why exactly do you WANT to play as a pup? I understand on the surface it sounds like a cute idea but if you actually think about it, what would you do to make it interesting?

Another thing is that I see players wanting to make their pack mates do all the work. This confuses me even more. Sometimes I do like to let my pack mates go out and I chill at the den, but I can't imagine wanting to do that ALL the time. Usually when my pack mates go out hunting or marking territory then I observe my pup's personalities for maybe 5 minutes and then I get bored and I sleep to pass time. I usually only observe my pups once they're older, during Young Hunters because then is when I actually get to see their personalities properly, and there isn't really much you can see when they're small. Sure, the animations are cute, but once you've seen them once there's not really any point in watching them again. Pretty much 90% of my time spent at the den is me sleeping to pass time. The only way I can think that making your packmates do all the work would be interesting is if predator attacks were scaled to be more dangerous and more often, because I can usually deal with them fine if I have like two packmates with me.

So my question is WHY do you want your packmates to do all the work? I would imagine the only thing you would do if your packmates did all the work is sit AFK or sleep to pass time. What exactly sounds so appealing about doing nothing? Why would you want to have nothing to do? That just sounds incredibly boring. People can play the game the way they want, it just baffles me when players don't actually want to PLAY the game. Like I'm genuinely confused as to why that sounds like a fun idea at all.

I know some people get bored of territory marking or hunting because it's repetitive, but why would you want to do LESS in that situation? Wouldn't that just be even more boring? I do occasionally get bored of WolfQuest, but when I do I always look for ways to ADD to the game, not take away from it. Like doing challenges, only hunting a certain prey (to make hunting more interesting), only having a limited amount of hexes (that removes the tedious territory marking and makes it harder because of stranger wolves) or not be able to kill wolves to make wolf fights harder. I always ADD to the game when I get bored, why would you want to take away from it??

Sorry if this comes across as defensive or has a weird tone, if you want to play the game like that and that's what you find fun, that's perfectly valid, I just don't understand WHY that's something you want.