No this is fine! Ya it's a 101 but it's never explicitly taught to anybody. If you think about how artists and devs are taught, in tutorials or school or udemy, it's very easy to think of it all as just a technical challenge. "If I can just add more mechanics, more content, more Game Feel, it'll be a good game..." So many game youtubers do this, and then months later release a vid about how their game failed. it's so easy to get so caught up in the technical challenges of a hobby that you can forget to figure out if it's even appealing at all. Even AAA studios just create technically impressive games without giving enough thought into why people would want to play it.
But ya, sometimes u get so lost in the sauce it's good to return to first principles and work from the bottom up. We need to remind ourselves of the 101s ahah
TY for thinking it's cool anyways!!