Ps is actually fun to play especially during the holiday or festive season one could keep themselves playing games with friends and families.
Yes, PlayStation is good to be played among friends and family but I do not like to use it to gamble, I prefer to just play it for fun. I have seen in some places that it is played publicly that some people use it to bet but I do not like that. They will pay the owner of the game money and they will also use it to bet. But if I am among my friends or family, we just play for fun and not for money involved and it is not public but one of us have the game.
I like your sincerity, running games centre is very common in my country and it is a lucrative business if the centre is located where youths are mostly living or a schools and hostels area, you really can't blame these people, some youths can't afford to buy a ps5 and they want to feel the excitement to own a ps5, the only thing they can do is pay for time to have some fun, I don't like it either but I understand perfectly well why people will always pay money to play some video games.
This has been ongoing for years and it is what it is, gaming consoles are also getting more expensive, it cost $500 to get a new ps5 today and to me this is a big amount of money, it will take a year for many to safe up this amount in my country where the average salary is around $35 per month.
Those who are running this type of business are not more or less than those who are patronising them, they have to survive too and in a country where there isn't enough job vacant this is very better than becoming a armed robber and terrorising the neighbourhood.