VR is never going to be capable of providing me with anything I actually want.

I don't understand why people care about it. It sounds like Ultima Online, but with something close to Real Dolls™ maybe.

I guess, just like cosplay and furries, there's a subculture that's ambivalent enough about their own combination of desperation for stimulus, to give it a try and find attachment and occupy themselves within this form of media...