tbh if she had made things backwards people would be like "Oh, this summer single is more of the same, it's like So Nice / girls / Koishikute all over again!!! The songs for the Pachinko seem to be much better, they're so different from her usual releases uuurgh why didn't she made this the single??!!"
imo HOTEL has better songs than these from the Pachinko, I guess the hype was just cause it is "no-elsewhere-avaible" in theory.