Gandalf: “I am sorry Frodo. I was, delayed.”
The delay:
Same, been playing JRPGs since the Super Nintendo days. I’ve never seen it used as a derogatory or discriminatory term in message boards, just an easy way to differentiate western and Japanese subgenres when discussing RPGs.
IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.