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> "Consider using 'devoted' instead of 'addicted.'" I'm sorry but you don't develop a physical devotion to heroin. It's an addiction.

I think the page or it's authors agree with you. But you (probably) aren't addicted to video games and that's the use that trivializes real addictions. If the article isn't clear that's a different criticism that the one you're making



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