>>103390470
Think of it more like having an appealing model is basically reaching the starting line. Once you're there, then you can move into other things to actually attract people.
For an example of things that should be great to stand out but don't actually do it, there's pumpkinpotion. She has a completely unique gimmick with her 20's cartoon styled model and is objectively successful, but you'd think with such a unique and stylistic model that she'd be on par with the other big name indies like shylily or ironmouse.
She's a high 3view, occasional 4view with raids.
Meanwhile, I saw a generic vrchat-styled fox girl model streaming gachaslop to like 1-2k the other day with drops.
People say they want things unique, but realistically they just fall back on generic safety over time.