>>712766367
ZUN has been cost-cutting in one way or another since the start. The PC-98 games contain outright plagiarisim i.e. traced-over sprites, and he uses stock fonts and stock images (the latter heavily edited to be less apparent) in appropriate places. He probably sees the tech as in that same vein, and probably never grew out of his "do it as cheaply as possible" doujin mentality. It's not a matter of needing to, but being able to get away with it. I doubt he expected such a big backlash from western fans, but he doesn't make the games for western fans so I imagine it'll carry through to the final game. Honestly the demo was one of the worst games in the series not factoring in the AI stuff, really buggy and the unique mechanic is outright awful, so he might just be losing his touch.

I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel with these images so I'll stop talking about 2hu now