-Fate/stay Night stuff-
For some reason I started reading that a few days ago. Pretty sure I both hate myself and just don't learn sometimes, considering I thought Tsukihime was rather trash.
Not a fan of Type-Moon so far, must say.
If Fate is a 'pretty awful' VN, I dare wonder what your opinion is on mindless eroge.
Like 'Violent Semen Inferno'
Most VNs ARE awful; Let's be honest, the writing quality in pretty much all forms of media are pretty abysmal. I think peoples standards are set much too low if The Last of Us can be called a paragon of storytelling despite in actuality being only fine, acceptable. At some point not being complete shit started becoming the new good.
VNs in particular tend to show this due to the (generally) amateur writers creating them, the fact when we get them they are parsed through a translator, and the core issue that the vast majority of human beings cannot create an interesting story even if they try as hard as they can. It's much easier to just amalgamate things you like together and tweak the surface appearance, or go for the obvious and easy start. (e.g.: "I have these four characters I've thought up and a story of fighting monsters, betrayal, romance, (ect.) ...But I can't think of something they would be doing during the day when not fighting, or where they would meet. Oh, I'll put it in a school setting, that solves the problems!")