>>54424249>>54424236To be fair, those writers are only writing what they know. I don't find it too harmful in the grand scheme of things, but I do agree it is rather unusual considering how some works seem to present such an advance, connected setting, only for what should be obvious not being so. In that, it would require more extensive world building to justify the way such an Internet is, such as some form of censorship on a grand scale, or perhaps some other woven and contrived issue for an Internet that isn't so. Most works, Pokemon, Isekai, or otherwise of the casual persuasion, have these issues with their world building.
With regards to mentions of things like economics, finances, and technological development, that would require a competency on the author's part, many of which they may or may not have. It does not require you to be a polymath/renaissances man on such subjects, but I find most works breeze through such things for the sake not getting bogged down in the story with needless, bloated world building to explain every damn thing. In that, just elaborating on it would just poke more holes into their story, as someone in the thread mentioned in terms of not elaborating on economics for any given story.
Hell, just look to Harry Potter for instance. Say what you will about the quality of the work, including its rather infamous world building. But it did something right in regards to focusing on its characters and story, to the expense of everything else and managing to be a success regardless, and its much the same for many of these other works out on display.
