I'll be perfectly honest, being popular sounds like a pain. For me, its better if you could hang out with the people where you could truly share your burdens... guess this is the old man in me speaking
Isekais are popular the same reason junk food is. They're both easy to digest and taste pretty decent, but at the same time most of them are trash. Unimaginative settings, crappy characters, crappy plot, etc.
Honestly I don't know why I expect something more when I'm trying to read an isekai...
@WhimsiCat i reread the first chapter again and there was a mention of a harem route with rize going yuri...
Though this is very much a baru route for finne and rize x sieg route
As it turns out, Finne is still the main heroine after all, just with a different target whahahahaha
On a more serious note, this chapter gives more evidence of this iteration of Finne as a NG+ character.