i will also say this. Everything about youth sports these days strikes me as too structured. Teams, travel leagues, private coaching, $$, etc.
When I was a kid (elementary and middle school mostly), the most fun was playing backyard baseball, tennis with buddies in the park, and pickup bball. Would do some organized sports here and there, but that was a fraction of what I did just informally.
I don’t think kids do the informal sports stuff anymore. Either no time with all the organized sports, helicoptering parents, or lack of socialization skills to organically play like that.