I used to be a huge fan of L5R but this new edition killed it for me. Well soon as FFG got the license red flags were everywhere, like the setting was way too gay. I mean i expect some same sex stories but holy hell half the cast are alphabet people. Now that I have alot more experience in rpgs, it was never an amazing setting. It was just all we really had for a samurai game. As far as seppuku is concerned, it was always overplayed but to prohibit it's practice is equally as absurd. I remember playing or seeing games where everyone was just offing themselves at the drop of a hat, they wouldnt have any samurai left.
I was in the official or "official" discord i'm not sure if FFG claims that but it is where the L5R staff hang out too so it's official far as i'm concerned. Any deviation from the orthodoxy of what they believe L5R to be will cause them to start shrieking, I was trying to bounce an idea for a massive clan war for ascension to Shogun over the region kind of mirroring the sengoku period or any number of customs to adopt from actual period japanese history and was met with nonstop bitching about how it's "not actually japan"
Throw that on top of the settings quirks already like having an islander culture on what is closer to china in landmass and location, and the fact that the clans never actually war with each other, not really. That and everyone just plays a caricature of their clan/school, so if you tried to run a single clan game you'll end up with multiple identical pcs.
Yeah fuck that, I was looking at a few other games for my samurai fix like Bushido, Sengoku or using a more generic game to do it.