The Culture: Fanfic Mentality In Tabletop Is Why There's So Much Slop No One Needs

Grifting Beast shills Crap You Don't Need.

This is what happens when you let whiners like the Professor get the idea that they can just make their own shit--that same Fanfiction mentality applied to Tabletop--instead of insisting upon them bucking up and mastering the Real Game as it is or punting them out of the hobby entirely.

This is all about the exact same problem that wrecked mainstream fiction publishing: the prioritizing of the emotional comfort and satisfaction of the player (reader, really; most of these folks don't play) over the pursuit of proficiency and mastery of the game in order to defeat the challenge presented by it.

Naturally it has all the usual problems: not a complete product (needs Endless Product Slop to provide a complete product), not The Game That Matters so its explotation of the Network Effect is nil (so no, you can't just find a group anywhere at any time), not piss-easy to play (unlike the Real Game; Beyond is a killer app for a reason), and otherwise far more friction than its worth to bother.

The value proposition isn't there. No one needs this, and the fact that it took begging on Kickstarter to make this happen shows that sweet fuck-all wanted this; this is going to sit on a shelf, unused, as a Status Marker like so many other such wastes of wood pulp.

Stick to the Real Game. You'll actually play that. Then resist the urge to hack it up like Karens trooning out their kids for clout; accept the Real Game for what it is, learn it, master it, defeat the challenge it presents- the very mindset and habit that leads to success in real life, and always has.