My opinion is very similar to yours, players come back again and again to win back what they lost earlier. They have a desire to simply get back what they lost earlier, this is what keeps them going, but for such people, most often, everything continues with increasing losses. At some point, they will reach a level where they decide that their losses are too high for this to continue, but until then, they can lose quite a lot of money.
That kind of mindset is what makes them addicted to gambling, instead of wanting to recover what has been lost but instead increasing the amount of losses because the uncertain victory obtained in gambling does seem difficult to get, only luck will make players win, besides that to cover all the losses that have occurred is very unlikely.
For people who can accept losing money that is bet on gambling, they may not experience a desire to recover losses, moreover, this desire to recover losses is one of the wrong actions, because it will only make us lose more money.
Yes, I completely agree with you, in fact, the desire to recover previous losses during gambling becomes a kind of mental trap, at that time every gambler thinks that they will recover all their losses in the next game. But this never happens, rather they end up losing more.
So see gambling only as entertainment, and gamble with money, that if lost, then you do not have to gamble with the mentality of recovering that loss later. Because this can make us more frustrated.
Rather, you should have the attitude that when you start losing, stop gambling, because when I lose, we keep gambling more emotionally. Which is absolutely not right, Because for this, our losses become more deeper.