>self-inserters gonna self-insert into whatever character matches their demographic the most, it seems.
Learn the lingo bud.
>The comments in this section highlight well why it seems that every other series must sooner or later feature a harem, and why so many series exist that have a cast of one completely average looking male and 19 pretty females, that all have about zero own development outside of their relationship with the central male
Yeah, yeah. Every romance is based on mix of wish fulfillment (like the idea of good disposition having greater value than competence, personality, assertiveness, compatible level of intelligence etc) and appeal to biological truths (hypergamy or sex specific reproductive strategies for example) scantily dressed in narratives and pretending to be stories. It applies to every genre and every fandom, some idiots are just louder than others (probably because of that surplus testosterone pumping through their bodies).