On Dobrichev's
"why it isn't deeply investigated"
I would surmise that while they are interesting mathematically (combinatorics and group theory I guess) or computationally, they are a long way from what people want to solve hence naturally of less interest.
To deal with this by avoiding piles of raw pencil-marks, various ways have been tried. Early on there were Phrrhon's double clue ones, I've done a few myself and I recently did negative clue ones posted here.
A while ago para did a killer with adjacent cage totals i.e. they were wrong by +/-1. So here is a vanilla (not plain) on the same basis:
The actual cell values are adjacent to the number given. This cried out to me to be NC, so it is. It is also X.
Not too difficult:
one small fish and some NC moves of similar level.I'll post more if anyone likes them.