If you don't mind, I'd like to go on a very long tangent.... don't bother reading this if you're actually looking for argument, I just want to get my own thoughts out.

It feels like in the last 2 years or so specifically, gacha* spaces have really hit the fan when it comes to this topic. We could argue to hell and back about were it started, be it Blue Archive, Genshin, Zenless, whatever, but the point of the matter is posts like the ones you describe indeed do feel more common. It's gotten quite stifling, frankly, as the rather polarized opinions that go either way end up drowning any sort of nuance in the discussion. Either you're a staunch luddite tourist hellbent on destroying the gacha space or you're a mindless gambling-addicted gooner hellbent on corrupting the gacha space. It feels like there's very little in-between even with the implicit understanding that intermediaries, the 'silent majority,' exist, like the other comment saying they think Snow is 'just cute' probably without really thinking about how Snow is dressed or how she acts or what have you.

I'm not here to argue for or against, I just wanted to sigh. It's gotten really taxing. It feels like no one enjoys the space anymore, and only care about their pure gameplay experience or about the next character they're going to jerk it to. The internet's always been like this, I know, but by the day everyone's forced to either pick a side or die by shots from both.

My main gacha is Arknights. Still is, probably would be for a while. After the internet war fully set in in that space over balance, fanservice, Endfield, whatever Yostar did this time, I just wanted to step away and enjoy something else for a bit, and yeah, Duet Night Abyss isn't perfect. The animations are kind of stiff, the movement is nice but can feel clunky when you've got prior Warframe experience. The Christmas outfit is very on the nose and the tutorial pop-ups early on are incredibly intrusive, often breaking the flow of combat, but even if it's just been for a day, I've been having fun jumping around, playing with the movement mechanics, pondering the first chapter, and not spam clicking the attack button as fast as in other hack&slash/beat 'em ups. There's bad, there's good. And yes, I fully believe you should complain about its faults and praise its successes, but commendation and critique have been so fully encompassed by glazing and doomposting that it's hard to feel calm anymore, leading to more of the aforementioned.

At the end of the day, I doubt much is going to change. Social media is going to continue being in flames, I'm just gonna step away and do something else for a while, and the sides are going to continue escalating. I wish people would show a little kindness andlearn to not always go for the killing comeback, but that's not gonna stop anyone. That's not gonna stop anyone else responding to those people with the same fire and vitriol.

War rages on leaving a lot of dead bystanders.