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Steins;Gate is crammed with internet culture, memes and easy/attractive female protagonists. A better name for this show would be Waifu;Gate and it's an anime that pads time with the sound of cicadas.

Even if you manage to put aside the many ludicrous contradictions, thanks to a setting who's premise is time travel, you still run into other issues.

At one point there are several attractive women sharing a single room with two other men. These characters are between sixteen and nineteen years old. How is every single character, except the landlord, a virgin. My only guess is to relate/pander to the target audience.

Let's double down and also ... put aside the unbelievable characters.

Half way through the series something bad happens and the protagonist tries again and again to stop it by traveling back in time. This touches on the worthwhile concept of fate. He repeats this process hundreds of times over the course of several episodes.

Put that into perspective. We watch the protagonist do the same thing over and over for several episodes straight. It wastes our time.

When he's finished he then has to undo everything he did leading up to said repetition. The next several episodes are a complete inverse of episodes we've already seen; so we already know how each of them will end. It's more wasted time. Everything that happened could have been compressed into twelve episodes.

Ultimately Steins;Gate is a love story where the climax is a first kiss between two adults.