Yea, it is very important. There is a formula I'd like share with you:
Well written story + Good animations = Thousands of supporters on Patreon
What you are missing from that eqaution is
Content.
In the Production Triangle you can be either Cheap, Fast or Good.
Those projects have years worth of Content and they are slow to update.
There are very few developers that are Professional enough so that they complete their projects in a reasonable timeframe.
Adding animations is more of a sign of incompetence rather then competence since they don't acknowledge the
Cost of making those animations for their project.
Completing 1% vs 10% of the project with each update is the difference between the game getting completed in a few years versus people dying of old age without reaching the ending.
Look at this thread, people are already getting close to die of old age:
https://f95zone.to/threads/age-of-people-on-this-forum.191225/