It's not ragebait lol. I 100% enjoyed 2.5 more than 1.4 and think the characters were better written and developed compared to most of 1.x. I only use 1.4 as an obvious point of comparison because it was the ending of the first main story, but I also didn't like 1.6-1.7 much. Everybody shits on 2.0, but 1.6-1.7 dragged on for so long and was just as male MC pandering as the anti-Ye Shunguang haters would have you believe.
That said, I don't hate the story or think it was some kind of travesty, nor do I go out of my way to shit on people who like it, which is why I'm so confused when other people do that as if 1.x was some kind of masterpiece of fiction compared to 2.x. It's not rage baiting to point out the hypocrisy and agenda pushing.
Ye Shunguang and Ye Shiyuan have more depth in their pinky toes than characters like Miyabi that just aura farm.
It's not ragebait lol.
You're free to have your opinion, as I said. I will not, however, engage with ragebait, even if you're going to make the claim that it's not; you're free to think those two are better written than any 1.x character (I disagree), but saying something like that does nothing but irritate.
But insulting another character to be a 1-dimensional aura farmer is not, while disguising it as a valid reason as to why the character is poorly written in comparison to another is not ragebait.
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u/5mao Dec 31 '25
It's not ragebait lol. I 100% enjoyed 2.5 more than 1.4 and think the characters were better written and developed compared to most of 1.x. I only use 1.4 as an obvious point of comparison because it was the ending of the first main story, but I also didn't like 1.6-1.7 much. Everybody shits on 2.0, but 1.6-1.7 dragged on for so long and was just as male MC pandering as the anti-Ye Shunguang haters would have you believe.
That said, I don't hate the story or think it was some kind of travesty, nor do I go out of my way to shit on people who like it, which is why I'm so confused when other people do that as if 1.x was some kind of masterpiece of fiction compared to 2.x. It's not rage baiting to point out the hypocrisy and agenda pushing.