8374fg48fh You are not a stupid weeb, you are an insightful weeb ;-) I think you do have a point. As one of the writers one this site, I'm happy that you direct your critique at the site and the stories, and not at the authors. Because I think many of the authors here can actually write better stories. They just lack the incentive to do so.
I don't think OP is truly against entire genres like reincarnation or transmigration, because both of these can be done well. I think OP is tired of predictable plot points, bland characters, lifeless settings, repetitions, fillers etc. It's just that genres such as the ones mentioned above, lend easily to all of those traits.
The problem, I think, has several parts.
Let me first formulate four basic laws. They are not absolute, but they are good generalizations:
...1. Originality and quality writing = slow chapter releases
...2. Generic copy paste stories with low quality writing = fast chapter releases
...3. To be read, stories need to be discovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...4. When you incentivize something, the opposite is always disincentivized.
This is how Webnovel works (grossly simplified but true of essence):
A. Readers regulate popularity! -- but the third law still holds true! So Webnovel also indirectly regulates popularity.
B. Stories are discovered mainly based on their:
......Popularity (different indicators such as views, rating, power ranking)
......Featuredness (No, that word does not exist. But you get the point, right?)
......Stories with daily chapter releases
......Newly released chapters
C. Remember the fourth law? Publicity is a scarce resource. A large chunk is given out to the points mentioned in (B ). In other words, the reciprocal holds true, that it becomes hard to discover stories that are not already popular, not featured, that do not release daily chapters, and that have not just released a chapter (the last one is very important for new authors).
The micro problem: Let's try to simulate different cases:
It follows from A-C that the only realistic way a new author's story can be discovered using only the mechanics provided by Webnovel, is by appearing in the list of newly released chapters and preferably also the list of stories with daily released chapters. (There are other ways, such as the forums, social media etc., but they won't make a difference for most authors.)
If the author releases a high quality original chapter each week, he or she will only have about 1/7 the publicity of generic copy paste stories, and 1/14 or 1/21 the publicity of copy paste stories that even copy paste their own content ad infinitum and/or make bite-sized chapters to release several chapters each day XD
The macro problem - What happens to the site at scale?:
The short answer, basic psychology is what happens, because we are dealing with people writing stories, and people reading stories (and some bots, of course, but ignore those for the sake of simplicity)
The site starts attracting people who enjoy generic stories (because that's the only stories they discover), and detracts people looking for truly original stories (even if the site has them, they are hard to find).
Authors trying to write a truly original story won't be able to find a readership on the site, because they will have to compete for publicity with easy to write generic rapid release stories, for an audience that doesn't appreciate originality, on a site with no mechanics by which to reward it. What then would incentivize an author to write such a story?
Less quality stories are published on Webnovel because of the above problems, setting in motion a negative spiral of genericness (yes, that is actually a word!)
The business perspective:
ALL OF THIS IS NOT NECESARRILY BAD IN A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE. It just requires enough readers interested in generic works, and who appreciate rapid releases more than originality and quality. And by god, there are many of them! Even if Webnovel continues down this path, they will still be of service to this particular readership.
There is no TLDR. The above is already the short version.