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>Although maybe I'm just pissed off at the rampant viral marketing it got on 4chan and other video game-related sites when it was at its beta/preview phase.
No, you hate Katawa Shoujo because you've learned to hate it by repeating the same thing people say over and over again, because you joined after the fact and didn't know any better. Until the release of Act1, the only attention KS got was being mentioned as a vaporware project and an example of why 4chan projects will always fail. The release of Act1 came out of nowhere (to the point that people expected it to be a troll when it was first posted), surprised everyone by its quality (which was miles better than any other OELVN at the time), and immediately genuinely went viral. It became too popular for /jp/'s hipster tastes, allegiations of tons of viral marketing before the release of Act1 were made (despite the archive proving this completely wrong), and all newbies since then have simply mindlessly repeated this 'viral marketing' thing until the majority actually started believing it.
Also, there's a huge gap from being able to read eroge in Japanese and being able to write original fiction in Japanese, and as far as I know ONScripter is also compatible with earlier Windows versions.