Why do modern games automatically assume that multiplayer is what we want?

Because they're idiots.

There's many games that are single player, even though nintendo wifi is gone, Geometry Wars Galaxies still has a lot of single player content.

The elite is faking that they took the real vaccine; the real vaccine will cause spiritual and physical damage. When will the official churches start praying for the false prophet? Orthodox Christian three hand signs are different than Buddhist mudras. Ecumenism = 263 heresies; each heresy leads to hell. Orthodoxy = the only true faith; Roman Catholics tried one cup - one spoon ritual and got sick with Bubonic plague; if heresy enters Orthodox monastery then monks/nuns will get sick with flu/tuberculosis (for instance); Orthodox churches who closed for COVID or had disposable cups/spoons or dipped spoon into alcohol are no longer brides of Christ (now they serve Satan and honor Satan's new COVID religion). Don’t go into UFO to be “healed” by evil demons; demons never do good. SSN is written as a barcode/QRcode; then it's put into a chip; chip is put into vaccine; chipped people are influenced (by super computers) to receive grey plastic card World Passport with no name on it (but when they stretch their hands to get it, gov't clerk presses secret button to administer the unforgivable green 666 tattoo by isotope rays). If you reject mark of the beast (by hiding within a 10-15 people group according to saints Gabriel Urgebadze and Seraphim of Sarov), then your direct ancestors go to heaven (according to saint Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov from Ural). First vaccine shuts off your immune system; second vaccine gives you diseases; third vaccine puts your immune system back and it will start fighting the diseases and will cause death. Saint Paisios from Mount Athos said that the devil wants to deceive the rich with freemasonry, poor with communism, and believers with ecumenism. Elpidios Vagianakis said that there will be seven “mark of the beast” vaccines; reject all of them! Documents are from Satan; burn all the documents that you can find. Electronics will be used to track you. Even old broken unplugged 1970 TV set will show the evil flying antichrist using Tesla's ether. Don’t go into UFO to be “healed” by evil demons; demons never do good; always pray the Jesus prayer or to saints who help right away (like saint Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov according to whom if you reject mark of the beast, then your direct ancestors go to heaven); forgive me.

popularity and money says different,   and if i'm a games developer i would find it hard to argue with either,  besides there are still plenty of games which are single player or even single player only..but as far as FPS games go  human enemies can be way smarter and far less predictible that an AI enemy is,  although that is changing....and most gamers don't want repetive predictable actions,  they want diverse unpredictability and challenge, and humans are far more challenging.....i'm not going to guess why you're complaining like this, but i can guess already,  my advice practice, don't take it so seriously, or play something else

Playing Outriders, huh? You can set the default to closed in the settings.

Games like GTA Online and Fortnite and Minecraft have been making way more money then they ever expected, they've been breaking records making money, and other companies are taking notice and want some of that money too. So a lot of developers are focusing most of their efforts on online features and micro dlcs. For example, the upcoming batman and suicide squad games have announced they're going to be full online live service games. I agree with you, I dont like it either. You have to do research into the games you buy to make sure its not an online heavy game nowadays and that sucks.