the battle royalification of games is annoying for sure, but saying it started with fortnite is giving epic games wayyyy too much credit.
fortnite just ripped the entirety of PUBG but with cartoon graphics and worse shooting mechanics. and even PUBG was just taking the lead of minecraft hunger games which was popular YEARS before either PUBG or fortnite were around
except minecraft hunger games was good actually. it was fun and it was just a single game mode that some minecraft servers implemented, not the whole game. there are a ton of server minigames that creative minecraft community members come up with, hunger games just happened to capture everyone's attention the most, and then devs noticed and decided to capitalize with stuff like PUBG
I’m pretty sure fortnite started out as like a shitty co-op horde mode shooter or something lol. It was a bomb before it changed to being battle Royale
it did, the building stuff was meant for base building and stuff and is a holdover from back then