In my opinion the problem of Stoper is that he is an artist and not a businessman. Take DrPinkCake, a totally reverse approach, pure business, no space for artist. He does not care about precise rendering or fixing errors. He produces a massive amount of content, in a very good package, entertaining, and communicates with constancy. He knows most people don't appreciate a high quality of rendering, so he cuts to the average, spending more time on other aspects. Then, he made millions of Euro on Steam+Patreon+others. Dress is flying over a character? He does not give a fuck. And rightfully, because most people don't notice that. Stoper cares about details that 90% of people will never notice. Because he has no business sense and he has his own artistic vision to pursue.
I suppose that people supporting DrPinkCake and Stoper know exactly what they are paying for and are fine with that. If they were't, they could simply avoid giving them any money. Easy.
Totally agree, brutally agree, 100% agree!!! Oh yeah AMEN!
You named two of my biggest regrets. The stories where good and the CGI in those games, shit, so good despite being years ago! Many developers dream to reach the quality of those renderings.
Can I elect you as my representative?

GGGB is really incredible, the variety of the paths, the complexity, the writing. You can see there is a woman behind it, like it happens with JOHN (the dialogues are not by Stoper, I forgot the name of the lady who works for him, sorry).
If you like GGGB, probably you'll like
New Coral City. The dialogues of NCC are not at the same level of GGGB, but there is a massive amount of characters interacting with each other and so many paths it's crazy. And they have different and realistic personalities. No childish paths with all the virgin girls are waiting for MC's cock. Unfortunately the game become so complex that the developer stopped and started to remake it. But as he's not getting almost any money, it's just an hobby for him and he does it in his spare time. So the updates will take a long time. The version before the remake was quite long to play, it was approaching the end. He previously had completed other games in the same NCC universe, so the characters are developed in a few different VNs.