As someone who really enjoyed IMHHW, I have to say that’s why I went looking for the restoration patch myself. That being said, the fan translation wasn’t really any better than the official release, in my opinion. So while I’d like to agree with that statement, the work they produced didn’t show that. At the time, I felt that it had more to do with a knee jerk reaction to censorship rather than anything else. In fact, I’d argue that the H-scenes were weren’t just unnecessary, but made one of the routes look significantly worse, but that would be a discussion for a different thread.
Anyway, like others have mentioned way up the chain, I feel like the issue with H-scenes is both parts of Western cultures repressing sex (but oddly fine things like extreme violence), and also how they tend to feel forced, don’t add much of anything, or just used to placate audiences or pad time. Those scenes (and fanservice in general) personally don’t bother me anymore, as I’ve just accepted that it’s ingrained in this kind of media and there isn’t really any getting away from it. I used to completely avoid any sort of fanservice-y anime or H-scene VNs, but now that I both have been reading/watching this stuff long enough (and have a lock on my door ), I just stopping giving a shit and skip through them. They don’t bother me, but I certainly can’t say I enjoyed any of the ones I’ve seen or thought they were good/additive in any way. Generally speaking, alluding to sex can be just as poignant and effective as actually showing it, so on that basis I don’t think that the full H-scenes can really be viewed as necessary to the overall narrative.
At a certain point, I had to ask myself if I was willing to completely stop watching/reading my favorite genre types/tropes (slice of life, slapstick rom/coms, school life, etc. kind of stuff) or stop in the middle the ones I had already started simply because a few scenes made me feel like I was doing something wrong, but then realized it was kind of silly. I know what I am, I don’t find 2D sprites in and of themselves attractive in any way, so I realized I didn’t have anything to worry about, and therefore shouldn’t let that keep me from the things I might be otherwise interested in or enjoy.