When someone looks at a computer, they see the computer. I have a gaming rig to play Dark Souls 3. I bought it at Best Buy for under $400 dollars. It runs nice.
If I go to a computer store, I see other computers. Not all of them are as pretty as the one in my living room. It doesn't take much to understand a computer, you just look at it. When I look at the game, I don't need to understand when the computer was made to appreciate the game. When I look at the enemies, I don't need to know what manufacturer [is] to appreciate how awesome they look. When I look at the bosses, I don't need to know all of computer science history to appreciate how fearsome they are.
/parody My point is, you can totally enjoy appreciating something on a different level than another person. You might only care about the game and none of the software or hardware that is running it. But there was more put into the development; the people who created that game developed it thinking about the software, the hardware, the gameplay mechanics, the social context, and a slew of other design principles.
Similarly, you can enjoy the aesthetic experience of looking at art and confine each viewing as a solely visual experience. But the painter who painted it was thinking about his technical form, what emotions he wants it to invoke, where the piece would be displayed, who his audience is, and a slew of other design principles.
And to end this analogy, I introduce indie development as modern art and Steam as the MoMA. Indie games routinely push the boundaries of what we consider games in an effort to mold both how we design our games and how we consume them, lifting the experience from immersion into contemplation.
It's not the best of analogies, but I hope you get my point. It's totally fine for you to enjoy a painting however you would like. I've actually got several thrift store paintings myself (I picked up these really strange portraits of sad clowns a few weeks ago. They're lovely). But modern art was never intended to be enjoyed solely in that way.