You Can't Please Everyone

I write the protagonist going on treasure hunts, and someone says he seems like a lone hero, always heading out to hunt for treasure by himself. I write about the younger generation, and someone says I'm padding the story. Qingshan, Yingjie, and Meng Bin have had plenty of scenes, but I can't keep writing about them forever. I have to write about some younger members too, and then someone else says, "You spent hundreds of chapters writing about Nascent Soul Stage lineage members, only for them to die in the end." It's not as though a lineage member won't die just because I write more about them. If I wrote that way, people would say that none of Old Wang's family ever died. If no Void Refinement cultivators died in a great battle, I'd be criticized; if they did die, I'd be criticized too. Right now, I'm writing about some of the younger members. These people will become the elite of the future, replacing Qingshan, Meng Bin, and Yingjie. Once Qingshan and Meng Bin reach the Fusion Stage, do you expect them to handle everything personally? Whether it's fighting great battles or gathering resources, the younger members will have to do it. Otherwise, why raise a bunch of burdens? Write too little about the younger members, and people say the story feels like a lone hero's journey. Write too much, and people say I'm padding the story. I admit that I didn't write that first batch of lineage members very well when the family was first established in the Spirit Realm. But the lineage members who have appeared in the past dozen or so chapters have very important roles to play. They're the successors to Qingshan, Meng Bin, and Yingjie, taking over their positions. In the next great battle, am