Underground 1 (and burnout 3) both for ps2 are the racing games I always fall back to.
I really, really dislike open worlds, stories, pointless customization, and any sort of online play.
I want fast moving, hard to see, dodging traffic racing, with lots of crashing (or close calls).
My wife and I were doing big renovations on our home and were dealing with lots of contractors. I would email them and include my wife’s email. Yet every contractor failed to press reply all when responding so my wife was constantly left out of the loop
It turns out people just don’t care to think about or understand basic technology.
This stuff really needs to be taught in school (like how we used to have typing and business communication classes)