Oh I know, and I'm 100% onboard with it. It fits the tone and humor of.... well, of the parts of the game that have that tone and humor. I'm looking forward to playing it.
I'm just saying I hope people take it as a fun addition to the game and a solid nod to one of the amusing genre traditions, and it doesn't become an ongoing source of continuous requests. People will vote for headpats because "zomg headpats lol how can u not vote headpats", and I get that, I just don't think that expanding the feature in a significant way is something that serves anyone as well as other content might.
In other words, I don't consider the feature a time sink, I'm just worried that if people give in to their inner weab and use any and all fan input opportunities to request that instead of other content, then it could become one. More likely you'd end up delicately telling everyone to go pound sand after the appropriate point, but that isn't really fun either.
Dude, keeping in mind that we seemingly get content for these headpatting events, its all the same to me. In the end, getting a headpat event for a girl instead of, lets say, getting to call them to hang out seems perfectly fine to me.
We got Rin's number but can't call her yet, the same way we can't headpat her. Does it make any difference if we get one before the other? It doesn't to me.
Sel is the one making these poll options to begin with. So whatever he feels like or feels the need to write at the moment will be there. Right now I am thinking of how he talked about having so many characters let him not feel burnt out.
And, guess what, he may just feel like writing about headpatting for the luls. WE can talk about out-weabing each other, but in the end, Sel decided to use koikatsu for his game, after being inspired by VNs. Is it weird for him to also have a sense of humor like ours?
What I am trying to say, if this makes the development deviate a bit from the main storyline (for which we have over 21 characters mind you) it will be because Sel decided to have a change of pace, and that will benefit us, because he won't feel the burnt.