Again, fediverse is not monolith of culture.
I’m not talking about the article itself, but there’s just too many people on Westwrn fediverse right now expecting everything to be free.
A lot of fediverse instance in East Asian are more welcoming author, even if they post subscriber-only creation.
Huge chunk of “visual novel” standard by Western-based site are not actually considered visual novel in Japan (and visual novel fandom).
For example, Danganronpa and Phoenix Wright are not visual novel, but “adventure games/ADV.”
Even Nintendo’s Emio English promotional call it adventure games.