Free Step Dodge

Personal preference.

I can think of one reason...
lol real talk i've never played an Atelier game but I know ppl love the main characters of their respective entries, might be for completely shallow reasons but hey, love is love mang!

Plenty of companies who made turn-based rpg's are doing ARPG's or open-world rpg's these days( like Tales, Final Fantasy etc.). Atelier games for a long, long time, which seems to have been changed with Ryza 2, had turn-based combat, ost is usually pretty good to really good, crafting plays a big part in getting stronger in the games.

Iirc getting different endings in the older games depended on the amount of time (or "days") it took you to finish the game, some like that, others not so much, did offer replayability this way, if someone really likes how an Atelier game feels in terms of atmosphere, ost, character development and gameplay then chances are they'll like most Atelier games, since some points are handled very similarly in every game.