>>537741174
That's because generations change, and customer expectations change. Key jangling and serialized slop is the norm now. Mainstream anime-adjacent media is now full of fantasy shit called "born as an X in another world" or formulaic romance called Y-chan has a
" (like that Russian speaking girl, or that one girl who can't see well) where development happens 20 volumes in and the manga/LN ends in the 21st volume. Nobody except a small handful of elite people (yes, even moebuta) see VNs are a worthy investment. But that's not because VNs got worse, it's because people got more retarded.