cause natsume/marvelous never really grasped what sort of appeal they really had, both in the design of their games and in the clut following they unknowingly gained. they just continued to make bare minimum farming games for their targeted audience which was middle aged japanese housewives, refusing any chance to innovate from their initial formula for nearly 30 years. dont try to feed me some bullshit like how story of seasons is the real one, no fucktard, both marvelous and natsume are making trash farmsims.