Scrabble is getting an update after 75 years. And it’s not a good one. This new edition, Scrabble Together, will now be “easier” and “more inclusive.” It will feature helping cards and tutorial instructions because Generation Z wants to “avoid competitive games and sense of losing.” 

Scrabble is not the only game following this trend. Video games have been heavily criticized in the past decade for becoming handheld products, and not in the good way. It is standard nowadays for high-budget titles to force players through hours of prompts explaining the most simple and rudimentary concepts before allowing them to actually play the game itself.