Plenty of flopping in the NBA too.

I think less scoring makes it more exciting. Each goal has so much more weight because it’s much harder to score. So when someone scores it’s actually a big deal. There’s so much effort and work that goes into soccer, even in 0-0 or 1-1 games, but on the surface folks don’t see that. I’d much rather watch a 0-0 soccer game than a ~7-3 football game.

There are so many points in the NBA that it’s not really fun to watch until the final couple of minutes of the game.

It obviously all comes down to taste, and not everyone will like every sport, which is fine. Soccer being the worlds biggest/most popular sport certainly isn’t a fluke though (doesn’t mean everyone has to like it)