Maybe it is better to gamble online?
When I was much younger than today, so many years ago I can’t remember with a great ease, gambling was so much easier. You either got in your car or on an airplane, and went where people were playing casino games for real money, or you asked around and found out where the floating games were for that night. After that, going to a real casino
I suppose some of the motivation for regulation is the sense that online gaming is not regulated. Go into any real world casino, and you should always be “safe” except from your own gambling habit, of course. There are security cameras everywhere making sure no-one is going to cheat you. Regulators check the slots to make sure they are all working properly. Once you are online, there are no external eyes looking after you. You have to protect yourself. Except you do not know who the company is behind the online casino.
But because the overheads for running an online casino are significantly less than the real world equivalents (paying salaries to all those countless people is not required), the online payout schedules are more generous. Online operators can afford to return more of the stake money to the players and still make a good profit.
So why should anyone want to play online? All you have are a few animated versions of the casino games that lack any sense of physical involvement. Worse, some of the games just are not the same. For example, thanks to the random number generator, counting the cards in online blackjack is a waste of time.
And finally, you can get free money. In the real world, you can get drinks, food and, sometimes, accommodation comped.
So does that mean online gambling is a “good thing”? The only thing wrong with it is that it is easy to play. Nothing similar. Your computer won’t help you in any kind of game. But, so long as you have your gambling under control, you say when, where and how long you play. What can be better than that?