I feel this wholeheartedly. I remember booting up games like Morrowind just to walk around towns I like, explore the wilderness for hours, spend absolutely unreasonable amounts of times on quests and just generally not give a damn about how efficient or optimal my build/skills/gear or way of doing things was. I'd just pick what sounded cool and bumble my way through things.

Now when I do find the time to play games I feel like I'm always beelining between any two given points, not stopping to take in the sights or enjoy the atmosphere, worrying about doing things "right"." It's definitely diminished my enjoyment of video games. If I could I'd find a way to trick myself into viewing games the same way I did back then regardless of the fact that I'm not putting in anywhere near as much, or as frequent, amounts of time into a savefile.