>>713319056it's inevitable. Marvelous's whole plan was for the franchise to produce new game every 1-2 years without even imagining that a competitor could rose up. Their method of "spicing things up" was to add new stuff then completely removed it for the next game (better writing in the trio of town for example)
I don't like stardew valley in certain aspects, but it's still superior than most of harvest moon/story of season games individually.