The conversation is interesting, so please allow me to throw in my two cents.
I 100% agree with the sentiment that some people might, for a lack of a better word, sanitize their views on anything when it comes to the forum.
I’m a picky reader, so I haven’t read too many threads, but I saw this happen with wayhaven. For whatever reason, people were really against voicing their negative thoughts on the game at first, before we got a convo started.
I kinda fell into that category as well in the past, but that’s mostly because I didn’t want people to think I made an account just to shit on their birthday party.
Some people are seemingly afraid to admit to xyz for fear of backlash and idk it bothers me, since you should be allowed to voice your opinions (as long as you’re not being a troll for the sake of being a troll.)
Oh and on the subject of problematic ROs: I personally have no issue admitting when I love fucked up characters.
The only reason you might have saw me complain about idk Jun here is because I think he’s not written well lol.
Same for Marnekol. He was just boring. Otherwise I have no problem with characters that don’t fall in the uwu category, if anything I wish I could find one I like.