I've found that I am still willing to play RPGs that have some decent plot or game mechanics, but only if I'm able to skip past the grinding phases—either through cheats or by playing older games in an emulator with a literal fast forward button.

When it comes to city builders and similar games (including Factorio), I'm too easily distracted by the metagame puzzle of wondering about optimal strategies. I can't play them for long before I end up closing the game itself and pulling up documentation about the game's rules and internals, and that usually breaks me out of a potentially addictive cycle.