Always good to see King being one of the only people focusing on actual sensical stuff and not trying to paint their own biased view over Fujino's surprise or the poll XD
But regarding this, yeah, the issue is that Fujino tried to do lots of new stuff with this game, especially Part 2, so a lot of the time feels all over the place, in the gem cave maze's case it was too much "annoying gameplay" and not enough of the only reason people even gave a shit about the game's gameplay aspect in the first place (Aka Inoda fucking Asuna in the background during fights). In the end, most people following Fujino who actually pay him don't give a shit about more complex gameplay or a more complex narrative that mixes with it, they just wanna see Asuna getting railed by Inoda more