I didn't even think of it like that at all but that is actually an amazing theory!
That's the mark of a great storyteller. Have many options that all seem equally plausible, but none more so than the others. It keeps you engaged, how many times have we all been watching a movie and within 10min we can identify the "big bad," the hero, love intrest, and what the twist will be‽ Takes the wind out of your sales pretty quick. That's why Infinity War was better than End Game imo. We didn't know 100% which were going to get dusted, but we all knew like 10yrs ago who was going to lay down on the wire and everything would be fine otherwise.
Fr!! RTF hooked me in pretty quickly when I first started reading it, and had to stop because I was reading for like 6 hours and it was already morning WHEH. The story of this FVN is really interesting, and as you said opens up hundreds of possibilities of what will happen next.
The characters are so well written with them having different mixes of strengths and flaws and having much general characteristics/stereotypes.
This FVN really does make me hungry for more content
My first ever FVN was Arches, arguably one of the worst to introduce u to the genre. I found it on a friday night in January. I read from 11pm to just after 6am. I couldn't stop!! Like, I was full on ugly sobbing crying by the end of it. I've never done that before in my entire 43yrs, it was crazy, and even that isn't a good enough descriptor. I like the ones that don't use furry porn with comically oversized cocks to make them popular. I'd much rather a good story that has a love scene or 2 like Lyre, Northern Lights, Soulcreek or FBtW. Or ones that don't have any sex scenes at all, ala, RTF, Roads Yet Traveled, etc. They all survive on their content and amazing storytelling. Any of the ones me mentioned could be shown to ones parent's or anyone else that's not into furries or gay. They're just like the cartoons of the late 80s, to late 90s which were damn near all anthro characters, no wonder we all turned out to be furries!! Shit, even The Care Bears or The Racoons,, meant for little kids were great furry content