@QuanZillan
That's why I go back to Flexible Survival, or good ol' Corruption of Champions (more than its sequel or TiTS).
Despite the clunky, incomplete bits of shorter content, it was *wilder*. There were more encounters that felt like a world full of horny creatures. Not just another well/over-written fursona with pages of romantic backstory before *finally* getting to what you want (a 14" knotted horsecock shoved down your urethra to cum worms in ur ballz, infest u with lust)
@Badgeryiff On thing I struggle with in text-based things is the lack of pagination when it comes to text. Scrolling blocks of text is just hard for me to engage with.
But also too many people
have a habit of writing an if
like it's a discord chat log
while also dragging a scene out for way to long
I always tried to hit a sweet spot with CC, granted having visuals helped a lot. People sometimes forget the V int VN stands for Visual and not Verbose.
@QuanZillan
Yeeees. My interest in a smut scene has an exponential acceleration of decline after a few paragraphs. That's want the hormones want; the hot wet details.
If I want a romance quest I'll go play Baldur's Gate again lol.
May be biased, but CC feels like it has that *Chef's Kiss* balance
Dats some gooood lo-fi hotness depicting the fun details!
(weeermms...) 
@Badgeryiff I think the crux of the issue is games with far *far* to much exposition dumping. Just telling you everything instead of showing you. Character drama that builds up to nothing. Stories that lack any kind of tension. It's probably why I find horror such a great space to explore the erotic. Good horror has to build tension and atmosphere without over explaining everything.
People adored the friend character. Even though I never gave them a name past Your Friend or Them.