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I got pretty addicted to gaming in my early 20's, partially because I had moved away from all my friends to a pretty anti-social part of Virginia. I ended my addiction by tackling more chores and doing more reading. I don't know if it was a real addiction if I could just cut back like I did though.

Too much at once is not good for me because I'm trying to remember one thing, then another and another while a quest is going on and I gotta follow somebody or fight something while I supposed to read a tutorial. WTF. Other times it's too slow and I've already got battle scars and blood stains, 1,000 notches on my shield and then they want to show me how to parry. Well, duh.

No. Fuck them. Fuck their entitled attitude. Never tolerate that kind of bullshit.

I like when games use their narrative to give me a tutorial. Like my character is going through the basics with a new guy or vice-versa. But at the same time, it's nice when a character asks "Do you have time to practice?" And I can answer "Sure, I have some time to kill [Begin Tutorial]" or "Can't. I'm busy [Skip Tutorial]". It always benefits replayability by making the thing that teaches you the basics skipable.

Exactly, there only that matters to me is constructive criticism when there actually something to be genuinely criticized in a game, then I'm all in support of it.

With all due respect, anyone who would claim that about themselves is not only arrogant, but also not very smart. I read your entire post and I'll believe you when you say that have a quick grasp at technical theory, but the very fact that you point out that it still takes practice and learning to master skills completely denounces that claim "you know everything". It does take learning, it does take practice and it does trying and failing multiple times times to perfect any skill or discipline. There is no master of any craft that would claim to know everything. Even if one has learned all there is to know about something, doesn't mean there isn't something new to discover. Smart people in that position are not satisfied by "knowing everything", they push the boundaries to discover something new and better. That's how science, engineering, medicine, civilisation itself advances. If humans believed we "knew everything", we'd all still be living in caves hitting animals with sticks so we could eat. You can't know everything, that's ridiculous. All you've really proven by saying that is how much you actually have left to learn.