There was a post the other day about dark patterns that linked to a website that I felt did a terrible job presenting dark patterns. My main fear was that such information risked creating a moral panic that could encourage bullying people who enjoyed certain types of games.
In this video, Chris Wilson, former director of Path of Exile, speaks in depth on dark patterns. In the latter half of the video, he makes some clear distinctions about game systems versus meta systems, and how dark patterns manifest. I believe such distinctions are very important when making such moral judgements about video games.