Well, it's not so ridiculous IMO. While it was always clear that incest would play a big part in the game, as I must have stated dozens of time since 2018, the tags implied & the game delivered, (when it used to be pace-setting 3D), a good deal more. I can't even remember the original promo blurb/mission statement, (I deleted AWAM years ago) but I do see that the current one still says that, "You play as Sophia Parker, a middle-aged housewife...etc." I note also that there's still no "male protagonist" tag, after several years of a male MC.
If the blurb had said back on Day 2, when I started playing, "You play as Dylan Parker, a virginal, selfish, smug, manipulative, spoiled rich brat, with an ambition to fuck his mother..." or something similar, I would never have touched the keyboard. When he became official MC, it WAS an unpleasant surprise. It wasn't what many of us had signed up for, or pirated up for, in my case. AWAM was originally meant to feature Dylan prominently, not make him MC. Even that issue could have been ameliorated, had development time not slowed down even further IMO.
Several fans reacted adversely but it was countered by others, quite possibly those who'd voted for Dylan in all the very predictable polls, whose attitude seemed to be, 'we've won, now anybody who doesn't like it can get lost,' though the language was often stronger, of course. That attitude is apparent up to the present time.
AWAM didn't alter too radically, at first & I continued playing without pirate's remorse. I even found a Dylan scene I liked, when he practiced basketball with Christine. It reminded me of how easy it was to fancy & interact with my sister's friends, when I was a lot younger. After all, there still seemed to be plenty of scope for variety.
I did my best to make Dylan likeable, in the inexplicable absence of any get-out for those not interested in the incest aspects of AWAM. I had him paired up with Emma, who was then promptly written out, following demands from fans, who didn't find her interesting enough, or just as probably considered her not to have big enough tits. Because, I don't doubt, that Sophia had a pair of joke-shop breasts grafted onto her owing to the Dylan factor. (She was then inflated again in the hot-tub scene, also with Dylan). References to "milk jugs" & "love pillows" etc., were now standard, as AWAM became an unfunny parody of what it had set out to be & the once unique sense of eroticism was quashed, via 'macho in the playground' language, a guest appearance by Chuck Norris, panty-sniffing, paedophilia, et al. That's why I haven't played since the hair salon scene & will continue to simply observe & occasionally comment.
As I consider the game's decline I can't help but wonder if the Dev is the same person now, as the one who so clearly related his ambitions for AWAM in the previous decade. Intriguing segments, such as Sophia's 'date' with Alyssa & the Antonio episode, the art class, where that "class" originally promised, along with "realism" was demonstrated, are amongst those which bear no resemblance to the dumbed down M/S events that currently drag on for months or years. It's as though AWAM has a different creator.