I don't know if the writer was influenced by the patreons and their whishes about the story's direction, or if his parallel working at another project took some oh his attention away, but this latest update seemed rather unequal. Sort of clumsy and gimmicky. Kind of like a long-running show that runs out of ideas and it has to patch itself with forced conflicts, self-parodies and, well, gimmicks. Just the proverbial evil twin is missing. We had a story that was believable, characters that were plausible, situations that were thought provoking, and even the genre specific clumsiness ( the on/off switch for orgasms, the primitive view on cervix stimulation, Luca's worthy of winning Le Tour de France stamina) had its place as a storytelling mechanism for this specific world. What we got as a continuation is just flat and underwhelming, even if the intention was to be shocking. Of course Sandra was something of a Chekhov's gun, but it turned into more of an evil twin (insert soap opera music) type of narrative element.
Not my intention to sound harsh because the writer proved himself (until this update) competent, nuanced and engaging in his storytelling and the critique comes from the place where I think he's capable of sustaining the initial quality of writing.
Anyway, this was an amusing, though not for the intended reasons, update.