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The appeal is that it avoids all of pitfalls a lot of straight seinen and shounen romance seems to be built around. Do find them tedious because it takes 100 chapters for the relationship to progress? Are you disappointed when there's hardly any physical intimacy from the couple? Is it not weird that no prominent side couples are in the story? Are you not wishing that series would continue after they have become a couple? In contrast, is this chapter 35 of a popular ongoing manga where they just had sex in the chapters before.

People talk about the need to self-insert, but my question is: why would you want to self-insert as the default MC of a most romcoms and harems? I would much rather self-insert as the protagonist of the straight VN where a number of things I've described above actually happen and I don't need to wait 5 years for them to happen.