playing 30 minutes of the Tsukihime Remake just reminds me that like, yeah, Type-Moon stuff has been taken over by spinoffs and other cruft, overgrown into a tangled sargasso that has mired the international pop culture scene in terrible ways we're nowhere near breaking free from, BUT those original core works are still pretty solid
Other thought based on your metaphor: fate as a series has value as the equivalent of nitrogen-fixing for gacha mechanics
