Are they, though? It's more that the causal connection is more obvious. The audience can immediately see the face has changed. However, bugs and missing features are just as loudly complained about. It just takes longer to notice, and the audience lingers on in dissatisfaction a bit longer.

People caught onto this in comic books, however. There are savvy readers who follow writers and artists, not characters. There are savvy fans of Anime who do this as well. There are even people who do this with books and movies. There are some gamers who do this with games.

Same old story. There are those fooled by surfaces, and those who try to see beneath them.