I've been a gamer for the past ~30 years (No I'm not 30 but you don't start gaming at 0) and when I was a kid I had a Commodore 64. I discovered the homebrew scene back in 1988 when almost everything in your C64 was kind of homebrew, games were made by small groups of people, you made games, you messed around with your programs, that was the whole idea from the get go.
My Commodore 64 played all type of games, games I bought, games I made, games my neighbour made, we all were lucky enough to have the great fun of messing around with it, the fun of making our own things and messing around with things from others. When I RTFM enough to make my own things my mind was blown.
I think my generation, at least the part of my generation that shared this freedom, will always love and want homebrew, because it is the fun itself. More even so on the go. And of course we mess around and build things on android, etc. But it is always fun to hack and mess with every other system.