See I can't fully get behind that rule because the turn waiting is kind of the whole fun sometimes. Half the trash talk in our garage comes from watching somebody else choke on their turn, and if everyone is doing their own thing at the same time then nobody is really watching anybody. We ran Mario Party nights too and yeah they were a blast but they turn into pure noise after an hour, everybody yelling over each other, and the actual skill part goes out the window. Smash still wins for us because the pressure of having four people watching you lose is what makes it feel like a real event. That said if you want stuff where nobody sits, try Towerfall or Duck Game, they keep everybody moving without turning into a slot machine.

Man this hits close to home. My group literally fell apart over this exact thing last year. Tbh the phones killed it because nobody feels the same pressure to keep up when the book is just sitting there in your pocket. Page caps sound smart but then the fast readers get bored and the slow ones feel rushed. We tried splitting into two groups by pace and that just made everyone feel weird about which side they landed on. Honestly I miss the old days when having the one copy meant you had to finish or you were the jerk holding everyone up. The tech is nice but it took away the shared clock that kept us on the same page, literally.