It's a form of low tech holodeck. You write the stories you want to read. I love these vintage pulp detective novels but no one writes them anymore so I write them myself for myself, and a few of my fellow weirdos on weird discords.
This caters to a different lets say need.
Like I said in another post it's more like low tech holodeck or maybe create your own adventure. Where the story evolves based on simple directives
As someone once said, "Fail again. Fail better."
And, anyway, so what if they are bad? They are authentically the product of a single human soul rather than some grey-gruel average of millions. There is an awful lot of value in that.
Maybe the tree system and branch switching would still work without attaching it to an LLM backend.
But the editor would have to be more advanced I think.
Would be cool to try and build something like that.