It might be why many of us seem to focus on certain characters. With Emma no longer in Sophia's class, Aiden's blackmail route no longer holds any appeal, so all I need to worry about is getting as many points as possible with the female characters.
I replayed this morning sending Dylan off to boarding school to see if anything significantly changed, and to be honest for me, it was pretty much the same. Of course I'm expecting this to change with the new students in the Biology class.
That said, the branching is one of my favourite things about this game. I like that we can all rave on about how much we love Sophia, but for each of us her interactions with the other characters is different, and sometimes completely opposite.
Oh, and in other news, I have a 4K render going that is currently taking a little over 6 hours, will probably take 8, with just Sophia in her bedroom.