Apex is perfect

"Maybe one day AI will save everything."

You said it yourself. There comes a point where everything in the world is bent to the will of the shareholder. AI will be no different. No better. Possibly much, much worse. Imagine you're playing an AI-generated game. Nothing looks very good, and it all looks kinda the same. Except where it unwittingly breaks the laws of common sense like a Salvador Dali painting. Then, just as you're about to cap the boss, the AI says, "Dave, you've been sitting in your chair for too long. I'm going to pause your game so you can go outside and stretch your legs. But first here's a message from our sponsor...." Name a gamer who wouldn't throw their controller at the screen. I know I would.

And that's assuming that our AI overlords don't abolish gaming altogether as "unproductive."

No, I'm sure AI will bring some good with it. From what I read it already has. But that good almost never seems to be proportional to the wealth it extracts from people. And in the case of AI, there will almost certainly be a good amount of evil that comes with the good. That's inevitable. And I don't even feel cynical saying that. It's just the way the world works. It's the way the world has always worked.