I agree with you, but actually Atelier Sakura isn't like this before, I don't know what happened it seems that their game is losing quality when they changed CG artist, check their older games, it's much better and hotter.
Atelier Sakura started going down in quality after the marina and Hosaka / after story.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the translation of the 1st Soredemo Tsuma by Lune.
And that sht is soooo long to translate that I perfectly understand why no one wants to translate it for free.
I mean it's around 15 years now that the game was first released, the only time I ever got proof that someone was doing a fan translation was back around AIM, and that was long a** time ago.
But Atelier is still better off than Appetite, how many games have they had now that are basically 30-40min (20min if you're at reading) playthroughs? I'm sure it's past 200...