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Because that's just where the industry moved onto to. Raw visual novels (the kind with little to no interactivity beyond choices) were already on their last legs by mid 00's, Majikoi, Umineko and Steins;Gate were basically the last hurrah for that era. These companies are desperately trying to stay afloat now that their original bread and butter has mostly fallen out of fashion with the general public in Japan. Wagahime basically completely bombed and as much as he talks about the war in Ukraine, Ryukishi was already airing his concerns about how hard it would be to sell a game like Ciconia in the modern day given his usual format.