the more you dig deeper into the animation community the more you realize that fight anims are popular for a few reasons

1. they’re cool, obviously
2. they’re somewhat considered as “the best way to improve”, from what i heard
3. they look COOL

while more peaceful / character oriented stuff would be interesting, people are more interested in fights than reading text on frame delays (which is what most “peaceful” stick nodes animations are)

while there are some rare exceptions to the above statement, they have to actually start showing themselves soon enough since most sticknodes series nowadays are just 💤💤💤 if you cut out the epic fighting

as someone who frequently talks with good SN animators, and from the different progress reports that i’ve seen, it’ll happen eventually, just not now where most people are too busy making fight projects to improve their skills

character animation surprisingly is a lot harder to master in general compared to fights, and i’ve yet to actually see a sticknoder master it fully to the likes of like Kyoto Animation or any similar studios / producers, but it will happen eventually, you just gotta wait

not to mention god forbid mfs out here start trying to study subtle body language and expressions and translate them into stickfigures

tl;dr: fight anims are cool character focused animation HARD!!!!!! but still cool