In cases like these, I generally feel like people use certain tropes in order to fit into a certain block, rather than because they necessarily think it's good or necessary. Kinda like how Fate/stay night is an eroge, albeit it has routes like Fate, where the sex scenes are almost entirely redundant, almost shoved-in last minute, and can be easily written away.
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@Solipsist What, this is basically the opposite of that; "it wants to be a hentai but can't go full hentai". Story and hentai are also not mutually exclusive.