I think that heavily depends on what is being defined as "mainstream".
Is it the same buggy, broken mess it was during the first week of launch.....no.
Is it a smooth bug free well optimized game. Not even fucking close.
You still need a pretty decent beefy system to play it comfrontably and even then it's still littered with problems.
You do realize that it's a choice made by the woman herself right? If you enter Othrodox church as a woman not wearing one they won't kick you out. It's also a tradition not a requirement.
I've been in my fair share of Orthodox churches in Romania and very few women actually wear a veil for normal church services.
It's okay the crack heads at Bellevue park make sure to guard the dimensional portal in Kensingtslon at night.
The neighborhood has never been safer.
It's the same reason we got all those let's play screaming youtubers in the 2010s.
They appeal to much younger and more impressionable demographic of young teens and children that are easily entertained through what most adults would probably label as annoying and very shallow content.
God this is insufferable, its just a meme dude chill.
100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can't survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.
Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.
But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I've got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual "mainstream" gamers.