It is slapped together because she is an inexperienced writer, this being literally her debut.
While she may get better with experience, other writers do well in their debut work. The question of talent versus incentive remains.
Not everyone does well in their debut works, so it is hardly an actual argument.
Nonsense. Most people do relatively well in their debut work. I'm not referring to attempted debuts, but to work that finds a publisher. Experience is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain ability, so lack of ability cannot be explained by lack of experience. Publishers can find sufficiently able writers without debuting bad writers who don't illustrate. The commercial publication of writing exhibiting lack of quality cannot be explained in terms of the lack of experience of the writer.
Plus, there is a facet of the incentive premise that you are not even considering.
Nope. But, before you get to the heart of your screw-up, we get some blah-blah-blah:
From what I remember from her interview (and it has been a long time since I read it, so I could be slightly off), she is basically having fun with this, mashing all her favourite yuri tropes. If her incentive for writing this is to simply have fun doing something she always wanted to do, she is pretty much fulfilling it. She is a voice actress, her career is not really hanging on this manga performing well, so the "incentive to get better" at writing might not even be there at all, or at least it might not be prevalent.
So far, that theory (which could have been expressed in one brief sentence) falls well within the scope of what I'd said.
You linked the writing problems to either a lack of competence or a lack of incentive in terms of readers demanding better storytelling.
To keep doing this, she needs a publisher.
Lack of competence is certainly a factor, it can not not be with someone who is not a professional writer and is basically doing this for the first time.
Not unless a publisher publishes it. And a publisher won't keep publishing it if the number of people buying the contents discernibly declines.
But the lack of incentive, in the way you presented it, is simply not a factor at all, in my opinion.
Your opinion absurdly imagines commercial publication as something else.
I do not think she would radically alter her course if some of the readers did rebel.
She'd have no choice but radical change of some sort. She'd have to abandon the work, or write better, or fund its publication herself. With money or sweet-talk, she'd have to persuade Momono Moto to keep drawing it, or find another artist, or draw it herself.
She is doing this for fun and is clearly not planning and mapping it out in excruciating detail beforehand.
So, given that her publisher puts-up with it because, for some reason, the readers put up with it, she doesn't have an incentive to do better. Get that all in your head at once.
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