I'd imagine people who are really into "Choices Matter" and some people who are really into story would.

I play !visualnovels@ani.social and half the fun is seeing what decisions lead to different outcomes. And getting different outcomes for different choices, especially if they are big choices, makes me feel like my choices matter and impact the world, as opposed to if all these supposedly important choices can only ever get me 2 or 3 different endings.

Although I do share your question about how popular my opinion is with other gamers.

Big appreciation for Undertale, which has 3 major endings but hundreds of variations for each. It's nice to have the game acknowledge what you did and give you resolution.

Yes, this will turn their potential studio shutdown into an guaranteed studio shutdown! Problem solved.

I was listening to an interview with a senior EU translator several years back, and he said that these days, he normally does the first pass with Google Translate, then manually cleans things up. My guess is that to some extent, most human translations likely incorporate some AI translation already.

That still has associated costs my guy.

Quality not withstanding you’ve got to pay for access to the model or electricity to run your own local model, pay people to run the lines into the model and stitch them back into the game and pay people who speak the language to proof read the outputs to ensure it’s not giving you gibberish.

And if you’ve got voice lines now that’s a whole other can of worms of paying for TTS ai models, paying for audio mixing specialists, inserting the lines into the game, paying to once again have a speaker of the language QA test the output.

Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad

I think about the creativity that goes behind translations like Ace Attorney, and lament that people are skipping past the nuance. Ex:

• The name "Naruhodo Ryuichi" means nothing to me. However, their invented name "Phoenix Wright" evokes a popular image on its own. Same for a great many of their pun names. There are many detective games I've played from a Japanese theme where I actually couldn't put clues together because I couldn't remember "Udo Rayoge" was a noodle shop owner and "Ero Gotaro" was the police deputy that was taking bribes and was murdered - because those names form no connections in my mind.
• Maya Fey eats burgers. Before translation, it was ramen; but at time of release, Americans associated ramen with being extremely cheap and low-nutrition (thanks to Cup Noodles). Changing it to burgers accomplished the intended character theme of being junk-foody and gluttonous.
• Quite often, linguistics have some effect on the visual clues of the game (and Danganronpa mysteries just as much so), which means they often have to go very creative with something like a torn letter or a message written in blood.