The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.
In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.
The purpose of fun is to live it.
It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.
Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.
Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.