Did growing up change your taste in LIs ?

Sort of! The only way I can think to word it is: my strike zone got wider. I still like what I liked back when I was a kid for the most part, now I just like more things; developed my palate through the years, you could say?

I think that I changed my taste in li not because I got older but because of the many games I have played. In the past, the charismatic savvy and kind of a player type characters were my favourite, and I am a little bit uninterested in those characters who are a little bit mean or distant. But after years of playing almost a hundred otome games, I came to realize that the former betrays quite often. Maybe I got my choice in otome games wrong but I have played loads of games where characters tend to betray heroine and it is almost always them. So, when I realized myself I have been falling for the awkward and distant characters who don't actually betray much compared to the others.
Of course, there is something that doesn't change for me. It is my love for yanderes!!!! I will never dislike my scary pookies.

I've been playing otome games for a long time, but my basic preferences haven't changed. I like characters who are understanding and supportive, childhood friends, and main characters.

However, I've come to accept characters I used to avoid, and I think I'm enjoying otome games even more now.

The characters I liked in the past are still my favorites.

Yeah definitely. When I was younger I enjoyed the over flirty/ playboys LI.
Now I can't stand them. I like the more serious and savvy LI. And I guess the ''mysterious'' ones sometimes.

As someone who played otome games for such a long time now, I guess my tastes has gotten wider. Though, I think it has more to do with how storytelling and player demands have changed throughout the times rather than me having wider tastes than before.

I'm not sure if it's just my memory failing me or just biased thinking, but otome games back in the day, especially JP ones, were very formulaic in nature(LIs always have stereotypes and such, which is why they have one-liners in character introductions on what type they are). So when I was a young teenager, it was the era where ore-sama and yandere characters seemed to be really popular. If an LI was actually 'caring' back then, a lot of the times they're secretly possessive/yandere or have some sort of dark side to them, which was honestly uncomfortable for me. So I ended up going for the mysterious guy or the smart one because, well, they felt the 'safest'.

Nowadays, I think there's a lot more games with caring, green-flag LIs without any secret red flags, which I really like. And even if say there's an ore-sama character or some kind of type I don't lean towards to, I find that they've mellowed out and games have significantly better storytelling to show why those LIs became that way. So my tastes have 'widened', but it has more to do with how a lot of games have slowly evolved to cater to a broader community.

Not really, I still like the same guys. Growing up never really changes my taste at all.

I don't think so. Both I and I liked yandere characters from over ten years ago XD
And PC games from over ten years ago had a lot of this kind of plot; it's actually less common in recent years.