I think SamS thinks they’ve found a contradiction, and from that has had a huge epiphany. But actually they have just found some signal noise.
I played loads of games over the last ten years, loads. The 400 hours into Stellaris is not statistically significant, it’s a one off anomaly. If you created a list of all the games I’ve played for more than 10 hours and compared it to the list of 61 games I loved enough to consider for my top ten list, you’d find you had two versions of the same list with a couple of games different on each list.