It would not be exciting if there are many winners on a lottery game. The most you can go is 3 winners for every 100 participants. That's a winning odd of 3%.
And there should also be limit how much a single player be able to buy on a lottery. The game of course should be provably fair. Provably fair on lottery is much easier as you can take a simple reference of future hash for the results.
Yes people requires excitement as well some winnings so we are trying to balance them