I think people are going to be more polarised than you’d expect. Many people are just never going to play go no matter how fun you make it appear, what gimmicks or time settings you come up with.
Some people that enjoy board games will have specific preferences, some people want multiplayer games with randomness, and you can’t make go be that game really, I mean the base game.
Some other people will just want to focus on getting good at one game like chess, and so won’t put time into more than one game.
I think this is just subjective.
I think the superko rule is one of the most unintuitive rules, Chinese rules or area scoring sure, but superko no. It sounds great in theory - you just can’t repeat a board position, but in practice it’s awful.
e.g. recently Life and Death under Chinese Rules - #21 by stone.defender
It’s not user friendly, it’s not even professional friendly, otherwise we wouldn’t have Chinese top pro games ending with no result because of quadruple ko.
I don’t think you need to do away with Japanese terms. It’s part of the game, and any game has terminology that comes with it. Chess has things like fork and Zugzwang and Zwischenzug.
Not only that if you go to read books and resources they have these terms, Korean resources will say Jungsuk or Dansu. We don’t have to use them in streams of course but
It’s because they are speaking another language.
I think there is a point where there are equally good English words, like using net instead of geta, ladder instead of shicho, so I don’t see the point of using those for English speakers talking to other English speakers necessarily.
But this is funny, I can’t get games quickly on OGS so I tell people not to play on OGS, therefore contributing to the problem.
It’s the same problem with Dan players find it hard to get a game so they don’t play, which means other players find it hard to get a game and so on.