Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
Honestly, as usual, Kish had the right answer. The whole premise seems to be the belief that Rich intends to please his entire audience. But we know he does not intend anything of the sort, because we have seen him tell readers who didn't like some of his other plot points (e.g. the presence of non-cis characters) that he wasn't going to change his plot points to please them, and that the best they could do was to read something else.
Yeah, this sort of plays into my point, in that, the longer the timeframe, the greater percentage of the audience is composed of people who are entirely interested in the story Rich is telling, wherever it goes. When something like what you describe happens, the people who want something from the story more than they want the story Rich is going to tell are going to peel off, and on and on, and now that process has been going on for twenty-plus years.