When I was younger I remember hearing older gamers complaining that RTS games like Dune and Command and Conquer were ruining strategy gaming because they were not turn based. They were "dumbed down to whoever could click the fastest".

Gaming is always changing and evolving. It will move into whatever people support with their dollars. If you like a certain design then support that with your dollars. If you don't then don't. But the market is going to move where the business analysts expect the demand to be.

That being said, we are in an amazing era of gaming where there is a huge amount of variety and value compared to how it used to be. There are a HUGE variety of games out there with many of them just giving the game away to get you play it.