Who are all these gamers that like the crappy minigames in the new GTAs and RDR?

GTA 4-5 and Red Dead Redemption have a ton of these mini games like throwing darts or bowling or playing cards and I honestly couldn't imagine anything more boring. The controls range from finicky to passable but aggresively boring. Even Nintendo minigames aren't as bad as these. But Rockstar keeps putting them in so they must be extremely popular with the fanbase.