Don't let your narrow definition of what a game should be get in the way of a good time
The whole point of a roleplaying video game is for the player to interactively collaborate with the game's creators/writers to tell the story of the game through their player character. Go look up the words of any well-known RPG creator/writer, this is what they all say. If the game is going to narrate a story for you and you as your player character are largely along for the ride (which btw is exactly what out "Tav" looks like right now), then that's not an RPG. That's a novel or a movie.
