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Depends how they are used. They can be great when providing important background information at a suitably dramatic moment, for example. As for length, if your readers start forgetting what was happening before the flashback, it's probably time to stop.

Eh... usually the rewrite does not even reach halfway of the original dropped story, and ends up abandoned anyway...

I wanted to be a garbage collector, riding on the back of a garbage truck. But my parents wanted me to go to school instead and I eventually let it go.

And while the OP singled out gender bender, this argument can be made for practically any genre, especially if it gets popular at any point. Isekai is a famous example. It got popular, so everyone and their dog started writing it, but most of it is low-effort slop made with one of several...

No.

There's just no real alternative with the sheer scale and breadth of YT's content. Everything else is either too small, focussed on a particular niche or specialized in something where YT is behind. It's the first time I'm hearing about Rumble, Odyssey and D-Tube (or I might have heard of them...

If I make it past the synopsis, then usually 1-5 chapters, depending on chapter length, format and medium, as well if there is at least something interesting in the chapters. This of course does not account for cases when I hit on, or the story shifts too far into something that turns me away in...

Depends what is your goal, in relation to the mysteries? In your example, if how the system came to be is not really relevant to the plot, you do not need to reveal it, but if figuring that out is a more central theme, you should have it resolved by the end. Or at least have notable progress...

There are tags that make me interested in a book, and tags that reliably turn me away, but there is no combination that is guaranteed to draw me in. It's the combination of cover and title that make me click on it, as well as tags and synopsis that might convince me to give it a try. Fantasy and...

What did you say about my mother?!

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It is limited in scale and the ending is kind of disappointing for an apocalypse story, but for its age, it's a solid book.

Gravity has fuckall effect on the damage of guns, unless we are talking gravity of the magnitude that would make continued survival impractical anyway. Gunpowder sudenly getting weaker only makes sense if you handwave away chemistry, and by that point you have to rethink the physics of...

Half of "alien invasion on Earth" Japanese novels/manga/anime (and those inspired by them I guess) have conventional weapons not working at all, or being barely a hindrance. From the top of my head, Evangelion, Chrome Shelled Regios and Darling in the Franxx all have enemy that is impervious to...