I have played games with massive maps, complex mechanics, and hundreds of hours of content.

Yet somehow, doodle baseball - a tiny Google game about food playing baseball - still pops into my head years later

That says a lot.

I didn't 'discover' doodle baseball the way you discover most games. I clicked it because it was there. No expectations. No hype. Just curiosity. And then, quietly, it earned my attention one swing at a time.