It's one thing when the writer makes the MC very "American" or whatever, despite the setting being "Fantasy-inspired Japan" or "Chinese immortals" or idk, you might even give having the tone being "American" a pass, but it's like when the writer 'localizes' the entire setting--deportations, not-fentanyl, wishywashy sarcastic MC, poor commons bullying the powerful rich, this bullshit--it's so hard to keep reading argh