This reminds me of a saying from my programming classes: Garbage in, garbage out.
Refers to how inputting bad data WILL make the program produce even more bad data
The hours I dump into games varies wildly. Certain games, mainly Splatoon 2/3, Final Fantasy 14, Factorio, Satisfactory, and anything with a level editor I'll happily dump hundreds of hours into. According to Steam, the game I dumped the most hours into as of this post is Distance, with the majority of that being spent in its level editor.
Somewhat... They tend to have 3 big ones every year, and this is one of them.