I think there are a few FVN's, RTF included, are incredibly well written, almost shockingly so with some. Just shows the passion of the writer almost always comes through in the story.
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