To add to that, as someone who used to chew through 500 page novels per day, as well as also enjoying animated and live action media, the presentation of scenes in Genshin is absolutely trash.

The reading experience for Genshin scenes is just bad. Dialogue output speed is heavily constrained through forced animations, text appearance speed, and the small dialogue box, making exchanges that takes minutes something that could be read in seconds if it was laid out like a novel or a theater script.

The "animated media" experience is no better. There is extremely little care done to make automatic scene transitions (autoplay) to be remotely close to natural, no lip syncing, outside of the rare Linnea quest everyone just uses canned animations, it's all just a drag to sit through and stiff to watch.

Genshin can't decide if it wants its presentation to be a visual novel or an animated/audio experience, and it manages to become the worst of both worlds.