And that's what matters. I don't want to take it away from you.
But there's also a more fundamental thing that gets damaged because of it.
Small example:
If the MC in some other porn VN meets a girl, whose boyfriend slut-shaming puritanin - what would be your feelings on this scene? Something like "girl, get away from him, you deserve better", no?
And it could work great in that different VN - but that is a VERY bad thing here.
Because if I feel for Laura: "You go girl - get away from Harry and be free", there can't be any drama or jealousy in this story by default.
And ntr doesn't work without jealousy.
Here it's just a small comment, so you kinda can forget about it - but I still can't think about it as a boon. Even if it flashes out characters a bit more.
Not when it undermines fundamental feeling of the story.
Whoo boy... there's a lot to unpack in there...
Though to start with, I think the main problem is that you seem fixated on the part of netorare that's defined as "meant to induce jealousy etc in
the viewer". Somewhere along the line, the idea that netorare is basically emotional torture porn got pushed to the forefront and got stuck there, when that simply doesn't make sense, and never did make sense. It's an idea that NTR haters imposed on the definition and it got stuck there, and I'm far from the only person with this opinion.
Netorare is a contextual and complex fetish that brings a lot of things to the table. Jealousy is one facet of it, but it's actually just ONE and a small one. It's what peeps that identify with the MC and who might self-insert in his position may feel. But there's also another aspect that isn't undermined by how APBLU is structured... and that's betrayal. The betrayal is very strong in this one because of how absolute Laura's fall is, and it isn't just a betrayal of Harry in the general sense when it happens, but also a betrayal of Harry's ideals and in some cases, delusions. Which obviously hurts him badly, and also hurts anyone who desires their women to be pure and innocent for the most part.
However, neither of those aspects matter to me personally.
Because I dive into NTR stories for the other element... The slutification and/or corruption of the girl that's being stolen. (Or the guy, but, well, I don't think we have any of that on f95 and that's stupidly rare for a lot of reasons, sadly...)
APBLU does a VERY good job of depicting Laura's descent from relatively normal woman with some issues into a cock-hungry slut... and depending on the ending, on a back-stabbing, insane cock-hungry slut. The process is thorough, and while it's a bit rushed, and even HSelf admitted that it was actually faster than he wanted to write it... it's still very well done. The story provides excellent reasons for how and why things happen and the varying levels of insanity that Laura descends into, simply because she severely underestimates Luca's madness and hatred.
No matter what happens, Laura will never be the same, and because it's all centered around Harry, Harry will also never be the same ever again. There is no ending to the story where things just go back to normal. After the story, no matter what, Laura will always be a complete slut and Harry will have to live with that.
It's absolutely lovely as far as I'm concerned, especially with how hot the scenes get with the extra context.