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I mean, it actually makes sense and clears up plot holes…

Even the side characters got smarter, my goodness

I was reading a, considering everything, really good Isekai novel, and I think when I finished reading all the available chapters, I noticed there was a manga adaptation.
in the first few chapters, the manga completely jumps over 40 chapters of the MC barely scrapping by alone in the wilderness, which is an important part of his growth and it's constantly being referenced by him and other characters...

before reading a lot of novels, I always thought this was the inferior form of entertainment. I mean, it's only text, right? manga, anime, live action, have so much more going on them, having only text to express yourself must be pretty limiting, right?
wrong.
there's so many things that can only work on text, that bringing into a visual form completely ruins it.

in The Fake Saint of the Year (IIRC), the contrast between the MC's inner thoughts and what he actually does, which is only revealed in the next chapter, is such a big part of the novel that when the manga adaptation came around, it looked like any other Isekai, because there's no good way to translate what can only work in text to drawings and text.

in conclusion, novels are better than most people give them credit for, and all cops are bastards.