it's a combination of steve being a character that attracts flaky shiny hunters who don't really want to play him as much as just looking at his evans face and people who do want to be active with him getting way too much demand than they can keep up with and then getting called cliquey and flaky for it when they just can't tag all the things and they drop because fuck that, rp's supposed to be fun.

mcus are always shat on in most games, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of attention paid to steves than any other character. most mcus are flaky, but steves are the ones that get all the complaints. it doesn't really make any sense.