I think that heavily depends on what is being defined as "mainstream".
Is it the same buggy, broken mess it was during the first week of launch.....no.
Is it a smooth bug free well optimized game. Not even fucking close.
You still need a pretty decent beefy system to play it comfrontably and even then it's still littered with problems.
You do realize that it's a choice made by the woman herself right? If you enter Othrodox church as a woman not wearing one they won't kick you out. It's also a tradition not a requirement.
I've been in my fair share of Orthodox churches in Romania and very few women actually wear a veil for normal church services.
Honestly for 70 Lei it wasn't a bad experience but the whole feel of the castle is almost entirely to play into the cliche vampire/medieval fantasy trope and for tourist to say they have visited a castle.
My recommendation is to visit, but keep expectations at a min. I've been twice now and both times felt lack luster and meh.
If you want a real cool castle like experience and are in Brasov, take the train down to Sinaia and visit Peeles castle. You will not regret it at all. From the grounds, the exterior and the interior, it really is something out of fairy tale or something.
Corvin's castle near Deva is another great castle to apparently vist over Bran but I never got the ability to visit so I can't speak to that as much.
It's okay the crack heads at Bellevue park make sure to guard the dimensional portal in Kensingtslon at night.
The neighborhood has never been safer.
It's the same reason we got all those let's play screaming youtubers in the 2010s.
They appeal to much younger and more impressionable demographic of young teens and children that are easily entertained through what most adults would probably label as annoying and very shallow content.
God this is insufferable, its just a meme dude chill.
100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can't survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.
Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.
But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I've got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual "mainstream" gamers.