Was that all about The Aeon WIP? As far as I remember, its author was fine with the feedback and none of the readers demanded a “blank slate”.
Readers may give a feedback about the story feeling railroaded or lack of meaningful and impactful choices. But none of it actually stops authors from writing their story in the desired way. There are games published both in COG and HG which don’t have a choice every two pages, detailed customisation of MC’s hair length, many stats, romances, etc. And they still have their audience who enjoys exactly this pace of storytelling.
However, if we are talking about something where the reader only turns pages without ever making a choice, then it’s not an interactive fiction as it simply doesn’t have interactive element in it. It still may be a nice story, though. But I don’t think that any of WIPs had such extreme limitations.