This is a sandbox VN where the whole gameplay is reading text and looking at the quest log. If you spend half the playtime reading words then it's something worth discussing, no? The Mario gore comparison is inappropriate. The fair critique here would be if Mario levels didn't have any enemies.
Let's not compare my writing with the devs giving 2 crappy animations every 2 months.
If I took enough time to properly develop the story you wouldn't have had 80+ animations in less than a year.
I'm literally the only solo dev who has delivered that many animations, that the porn industry has ever witnessed. Like for real, you can't quote me a single dev that has delivered as much content in a year as I did, except Wildlife who's a team of dozen of people.
I obviously have to sacrifice the story from the workload.
You want well written and polished characters? Fine.
But then you'd have 25 animations at best, instead of 80. You cannot have everything.