Maybe so, but Pip doesn't have to do the ten million parent jobs, that you have to do.
So he can concentrate on playing, because he doesn't have all the housework/pay the bills/keep the household ticking over stuff to do AS WELL.
i bet you would play wonderfully with Quoll IF you had no other responsibilities to do.

Pip is only doing what he is doing, cos he has the time and energy to devote to it, and because you have raised him to be a wonderful human being.