As a viewer I dont really feel (and defiantly do not see) the difference between how physically prepared e-sports or real life drivers are. I see track, cars, racing lines, overtakes. So I really enjoy watching e-racing. Only complain is that e-racing spectating camera work needs improvements. There is huge untapped potential in how e-racing is presented. I hope games will experiment more in this (spectating) direction.
My experience is that devs, devops and admins are striving for better and more robust operations and software development workflow that in the end will help out company in multiple ways. So they read what's new and learn and adopt new approaches and tools. But BI department just want to keep working with Excel because they don't know and don't want to spend any effort learning anything new. So now you have a conflict. Scary microservices vs good old comfy db select queries and excel.