I love it! Spotlight is special in my opinion. I think it just gets a bad rap because a lot of people on Episode are still very used to cinematic and not always willing to give new formats a chance. After all, apps like Choices (which is basically Spotlight) are very popular.
IMO? It’s a story with good writing that takes advantage of the format’s strengths.
I like that I don’t have to spend countless hours on advanced directing, find backgrounds that will work with said directing, so on and so forth. It’s extremely convenient and makes a lot of scenes that would require too many overlays, directing, or both and still not look good… possible.
Note that my stories are generally fantasy-based. A modern story usually requires less in this capacity.
Good narration for Spotlight can be tricky at times, but I just accept it as part of the medium.
Bad narration and bad dialogue, mostly. No amount of advanced directing can cover up bad writing when it’s in Spotlight. 