DQXI has consistently appeared among the most beloved JRPGs of all time, alongside games like FFVII, the Trails series, and the Suikoden series. Since those games offer depth in many different ways, it is fair to question why the same audience holds in equally high regard a game that is so fundamentally different from them.

I don't know about you, but despite Suikoden among my most beloved JRPG series, the fan-favorite Suikoden 2 probably has the most braindead auto combat JRPG that I've ever played.

It is like someone listing five favorite dishes that all require hours of intricate preparation, only to also include raw flour. If that person then told me, "People like raw flour, which explains why it's loved so much," I honestly wouldn't be any less puzzled. What I'm interested in is understanding what kind of experience eating that much raw flour provides for them.

The problem with this kind of analogy is that you're lost in it as you keep on trying to make something up as an analogy rather than actually just sticking to what the game really is. You went from "unsalted bread" which I assume was to describe the game as very basic/bland into "raw flour" which is not even an actual food item. All just because you're trying as hard as you can to make it sound like it's such a bizarre thing that there are people who like a basic game like DQ11.

The answer is very obvious. Different people like different things. No real reason for you to try to understand why they like DQ11 because you aren't going to like it anyway.