Any human being wants to "seek out very complex and varied situations which were challenging and highly stimulating", not many of them have an opportunity to do so. You are not interesting or unique (except that you have money of course).
The thing is, Nier Automata doesn't try to be a novel. I mean, it's not even that subtle, game all but tells you that it tries to experiment with storytelling in the medium in the first 30 minutes.
Also, you sound extremely prejudiced and close minded:
> Novels, while being ficitonal, allow you to explore inner worlds of other people and complex interactions between them (and there's nothing more complex in the universe and at the same important to us than humans and interactions between them)
How do you even argue with that? Can you somehow support this claim?
Though from reasoning like this i can deduce that you must hate House of Leaves, and kinda understand why you dislike Nier Automata.