You should try playing some Ren'py games then. Between the more than 200 save pages, and the fact that you can give a unique name to each one of those pages, having organized saved files for multi-route purpose is really easy.
I mean, of course I've played Ren'py games, and the option to name save files helped A LOT, but it's still pretty clunky in my opinion. I'd like to see a UI where certain stats from the save were readily available. Just as an example, something like listing your primary LI, the route you're on, and the one or two other relevant stats, would go a long way. In general I think more could be done in-game to provide players with info on the route they're on.
That's certainly an error, but the syntax of contractions is also one of the areas where English grammar is really riddled with strange exceptions. It's a rather esoteric example for a deal breaker to be honest.
I'm exaggerating a little. But I don't think I've ever seen a game make this mistake while being very solid and mistake free elsewhere. In my experience, this mistake occurs in games that are already riddled with errors and inconsistencies. So in those cases it's more the straw that broke my back. But you're correct that, academically, it's a super easy and understandable mistake. But that doesn't mean it can't drive me crazy.
To me it really depends what on what you get in return for the wait, if it takes 1-4 months and what you get is somewhere around 200 new renders, it is a bit shortcoming. But if you wait 1-4 months and you get 1000+ renders with a lot of (quality) story in return, I feel it is worth the wait.
I can already tell you are a huge fan of girls in these games expressing how big MC's dick is.
IMO, if a development cycle goes four or more months then the update needs to extensive. Length alone won't cut it, so even if they have 1,000 images, if those images are just filler or padding I won't consider that a good thing. At that point I'm looking more for things like gameplay mechanics, new features, or a lot of story. Look at a game like A Wife and Mother. The updates take forever, and we get a ton of images, but the story doesn't progress very far. So we get hundreds of images for a development cycle of 4+ months, but the story barely progresses. That means you're getting MANY images that are little more than filler. Meanwhile, there's no real gameplay advances, or new features being added.
A Wife and Mother has a really long development cycle unfortunately, but on the other hand I do appreciate that the developer tries to create a detailed world. Other developers simply copy-paste assets found online, don't even bother making scenes believable and/or have a lacklustre story. The downside to this is that the development time takes a huge hit and this is exacerbated by the lack of sex scenes, because the story follows a somewhat believable path.
that's kinda forced by the way renpy works. you'd need to make the same scene n times for n locations.
I hate everything on your list as well, but I can definitely see why those points are so common in these games. I think and I could be wrong, most people play these games to fap, so having complex characters and/or a complex story is a big no for a lot of people.
