That's a completely valid and respectable opinion, tbh for me it's the other problem of finding the dungeon crawling too long in persona 4 🤣.
But yeah, not every game is for everyone, and they wanted to fill this niche, and you have other games like Dragon Quest which are more to your liking.
Persona from what I've heard is great, but I am not the type of person who can sink in 160 hours into a game 🤣.
That might have just been because they were visiting, In my experience with software devs over here (three of my friends in the roles, and me having applied for some) it is more so jeans and t-shirt, at a push business casual, never suits though unless it's a posh function