I am having trouble with the importance of the distinction to the viewer. It feels to me like the desire is to see the pred too big for their surroundings and possibly destroying things.
I could put a giantess on a beach or in a field, but then I do not think that hits what is desired. Make sense?
Thank you for helping with this.
id say the difference lies in environment, with the player shrunk, everything around you is huge and unfamiliar, and the focus is moreso on the player/POV being tiny.
with an actual giantess, its only her thats enormous, and as such she takes up more of the focus of the scene rather then environment itself.
if that makes sense? not to mention an actual giantess also allows for mass destruction, mass vore and the likes a lot more easily then having to shrink everything down first.
it fills a different side of the same niche pretty much.
