Exactly, it all feels very intentional! I am enjoying this one as well.
Only halfway there to current chapters but I honestly don't think there's much naturality to any developments really. The plotpoints feel very much check and done without much real buildup or consequences. Nothing feels hard or like an actual struggle and so MLs anxiety feels straight up annoying and like she's super unaware of her surroundings like an idiot.
Not to mention the way their relationship was set up is just so yuck, he's obsessed with her while she's just got convinced he's a good? person #－.－)
Oh and that time skip and then flashback after s1 ended is stupid
Bro really decided she'll marry him before we even got any real indication she sven likes HIM, and now he's acting borderline crazy.
You don't make anyone fall in love with you, that shit's toxic.
I don't trust Mangago ratings at all bc only people who like stories keep reading them and obviously will rank them as good, despite if being fhe most unimpressive and/or toxic bs ever. The selection bias is crazyyy
Which is totally fine really, not everyone has to like this story
But I'm having a great time :)
I think it happens a lot with episodic releases like this where people reading update to update start to lose track of the overarcing plot that leads each of the individual arcs and it feels to them like the story is meandering too much or not going anywhere.
Personally, I think one thing has led to another in a very natural way that is constantly ramping up the stakes without losing track of where it started or where it's going, exactly how a story like this one should.
People think her excessive abilities are silly (cuz they are) but that's also the whole point of the story. I feel like the driving idea for this story is the question "if one person could do absolutely anything they set their mind to, how far could they go?" And the only defining factor in how much Marie can accomplish is how good and driven Marie is, which are the traits she's had since back when she was a "useless" princess who wasn't good at anything. Even in that circumstance, she was striving to help people with her limited abilities.
That's why it's so satisfying (to me personally) to see her now taking on the world again and again and succeed with each new ability she is granted. And we get to see how the foundations of her character never change so there's this satisfying feeling if seeing how far she's come.
I guess it's a really simple and classic story structure -- "if you're just a good enough person, you'll succeed" -- but taken kind of to the extreme which I think is a fun and interesting idea and that it's well executed in the story