It did cause a form of problem for a faithful path. Emotional cheating is still cheating. That's why people weren't happy and I think it doesn't help that she still text him.
I am happy with all types of cheating...emotional damage one to hardcore..but there should be cheating lol...many people are actually happy with that. Whatever negative comments this VN has received till now for no sex until now...atleast he satisfied 70% of the corrupted route audience with the last tease scene....lets see how much time he will take to get upto sex..
And I will just be honest...for slow corruption too he kept it until the boobshow scene and gave an option to go further or kick him out....I get the complain from texting fans that Ana should have shown boobs on text...but she is showing full nudity in real in front of chris...it was better option than showing boobs /full nudity via texting. And after that yea he gave an option to let it go further or to stop...anyone who felt it's going too fast directly to handjob, they could stop there itself too by kicking chris out. It's on individual fantasies upto what level of corruption you got satisfied with on that update..they can modify accordingly.
It's not like AWAM where no matter how many options one will select to go further in corruption scene during initial stage, it will end up in sophia showing boobs for first few updates with everyone or removing an underwear...Here an option is given to go further or not after a little tease so that those who don't want full corruption or feel it's too early, they can stop it right there.