What are your opinions on treasure islands?

[gabberzon]

I'm an active treasure island user since I reset my island for the 2.0 update and I genuinely didn't wanna play the RNG game of getting my most wanted DIYS and furniture sets so I decided to cave in to treasure islands but in the back of my head I always thought "am I defeating the purpose of this game and will people frown at the thought of me relying on hacked islands to decorate my entire island." As in I feel like people will scrutinize my island because I didn't actually "work hard" on my island and just simply got it the easy way.

Even if I relied on treasure islands it was still hard to make use of the items I got and have ideas for my island but I know there's a vocal minority who're purists and even get genuinely upset at the mere thought of just time traveling.

The thing is I already played ACNH naturally during my first island and decorated by actually collecting everything naturally ingame or trading and I did minimal time traveling so I genuinely didn't wanted to do all of that again on my second island. Anyways that's my experience and weird relationship with treasure islands but what are your thoughts on them?

 

[azurill]

I haven’t used them but can see how they can be helpful. It really is crazy how hard it is to get certain DIY’s. Even trying to get furniture is hard to find on your own. I think it’s fine to play anyway you want as long as your having fun. I have started multiple islands on my second switch so trying to get everything over again would be a pain. So I just move one of my characters back and forth between my islands so I don’t have to worry about DIY’s and furniture. It also gets me to be able to terraform right away.

 

[floatingzoo]

I loved them in new leaf! Using them to get rare items that were only available from amiibo cards was really the only option for me at the time! Until I... um... started using the save editor... That was perhaps more controversial, but I adored having trees in my river in a second town
Play how you wish and what makes it the most fun for you. Don't care what other people will think about your lil personal island oasis.

 

[gabberzon]

I loved them in new leaf! Using them to get rare items that were only available from amiibo cards was really the only option for me at the time! Until I... um... started using the save editor... That was perhaps more controversial, but I adored having trees in my river in a second town
Play how you wish and what makes it the most fun for you. Don't care what other people will think about your lil personal island oasis.

Haha you're right IDK why I'm so worried about what others think but I guess I was mostly curious what the community thought about treasure islands. Like I totally get the appeal of AC's intended way to play but I've been playing vanilla since 2014 I was like ermmm yeah I just wanna speed up the process ^_^"

 

[Rainy.Nights]

I haven't tried them on ACNH yet because I've only played mine for slightly over a year and feel like I keep finding enough new stuff. But I can see the usefulness if you decide you really want certain items you can't get, and I would visit them when I get to that point. I remember visiting those in ACNL when I needed to get some last few things. Agreed that you should play the way that you personally find the most fun.