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My point is more that the "bad SL skills" argument is bunk because most of the skills aren't that good. If Kawakami didn't have the massage her usefulness would be at best questionable and Takemi's are damn near worthless yet their popularity isn't affected. Meanwhile Chihaya has inarguably the best SL skills in te game between Fate, Money and Celestial readings yet her popularity is low.
It's because the environment means people are too scared to just admit that Kawakami and Takemi make them horny because Kawakami has the forbidden fruit/taboo nature of a student/teacher romance while Takemi just looks like a fetish/goth chick. Meanwhile, Ohya's and Chihaya's designs aren't as sexually appealing (which I think is dumb, I like Ohya's short haired casual look a lot more than Takemi's overdone crap) so they don't like them as much. But saying that means some faggot on Reddit or Xitter or Bluesky or Tumblr raking you over the coals so you have to come up with retarded excuses.