The thing is, they're right in that regard. Video Games are the most complex kinds of software one can build. You have to be able to perform a significant amount of complex computations within 16ms per frame. Meanwhile, most apps take several seconds or minutes for a button action and they think it's okay, or taking several minutes for an app to open to reasonable.

So the problem is this dissonance where video games can perform complex computations in <16ms but all other apps seem to take minutes to do barely anything at all. So they are right to compare software to video games because there's no reason for everything to be as slow and bad as it is considering what video games are able to accomplish.