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"Gameplay" is subjective.
I never understood why people bitch about reading in games. Like, you do know people read books for fun, right? JRPGs are some of the most beloved games ever and a good chunk of them are pretty much just reading a ton of dialogue and descriptions.
Gameplay really is about how much agency you have. Visual Novels are usually not games, as plenty of them have zero user agency. You're just reading a comic book at that point, not playing a game.
I've been reading a ton of these things the last few weeks. I can't bring myself to say "I'm playing these games" over "I'm reading these novels." Because most of them have had literally no choices to make, or the choices you make have zero effect on anything and are just there as a joke.