Recognizing parasistic game design decision

[Ronduwil]

I enjoy all the "prime examples" you listed. There is nothing parasitic about any of that content. Play the game and stop watching endless schlock from youtubers.

To be fair, the YouTuber had a well reasoned argument that in no way described the Diadem, Deep Dungeons, and/or Blue Mage as parasitic. A parasitic design is a throwaway system that takes from the core gameplay without giving anything back to it. The video described those three forms of content as minigames, and it specifically identified minigames as being perfectly fine. The schlock that you perceived in that post wasn't coming off of YouTube.