That's what you are arguing here with SoC.
That's what you keep telling me that I'm arguing, because you can't parse English.
you complain that the story isn't concluding and that's explicitly why it's bad
That development is not focused on continuing the story is bad, not that it causes the writing quality to literally become bad. Hence why I said:
"It doesn't matter
how good the current content is, if none of it is
forward facing towards the development and the
storyline has made barely any movement in the meantime."
The writing quality can be immaculate, to the point of being the best written work in the world, but if the story is stalled for years with minimal progress, it's reasonable that people are going to be restless.
The same is true of bad writing, but I choose Winds of Winter as an example specifically because the series is considered well written, but many people have resigned themselves to the fact that it's never seeing the light of day. People are already doing the same with SoC.
SoC shouldn't even be considered that well written as to be compared to A Song of Ice and Fire. By your own description, it hits the basics of English creative writing. But even basic characters with motivations and backgrounds don't matter if your story never progresses, because guess what, you never get to see those motivations realized. It's not that the actual writing becomes poor quality, but how well written it is becomes functionally meaningless, the longer the game stagnates in development of Act 1.
To use ASOIAF to demonstrate again, it doesn't matter how interesting or deep that Jon Snow or Tyrion Lannister are as characters, if the story never concludes and their motivations are never realized. They end up stuck in a stasis of only existing in partially complete works, where people can argue over what might of happened. And if people can lose hope in ASOIAF, then players can certainly lose hope in SoC, because SoC is not half as good as ASOIAF.
The writing is basic. Better than a lot of stories, but it's not worth waiting for since you'll never get to see any of the plot or character motivations resolved. The art is probably the best part about it, but you might as well rip the cgs really. What's left to wait for? It's just people checking in to see if their specific fetish has gotten any attention this time around.
