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What does personal preference come into it? I'm talking about removing storylines that contribute nothing to the advancement of the protagonist's story. If I wanted to argue for my personal preference, it would be something like an Ellie POV of her and Jules getting up to shenanigans - the things that are easily and have been done in a render or two of discussion. Or Jules' MSND performance.L&P has several female characters in AWAM with clearly self-motivated actions that drive the story. Patricia, for example, is well aware of how the world works and certainly has no problems in achieving her goals. Also Amber and Ellie have their own goals. No, it is Sophia who is really frighteningly passive for an MC. That's why I think Dylan should clearly get more content.
Again, Dylan is Sophia's son and it is only logical that he plays an important role in her life, just as Ellie does. The fact that Liam has so little space is technically well explained in the story and is probably also due to the fact that his character is not very popular. Don't forget that Dylan is in the on top of the characters beside Sophia, even though he is far behind others in terms of progress.
Also, please do not forget that Ellie also got a lot of focus. She has the friend group from the dancing course, the connection with Emma (including the shopping event) and a series of events with Julia, which have brought the lesbian story forward considerably. In addition, she is also a part of her story with Dylan. It's like I said. In a game called "A wife and mother", so the children have a certain importance.
Ellie has a lot of her own content and there was even an event for Liam point of view. Of the family, Dylan is the furthest behind when it comes to having progress with Sophia. In general, however, I think it makes no sense to expect Sophia to be equally engaged with all characters in the family or even in the game. Rather, Dylan is a good second main charkter for the story, since he belongs to a different generation as well as to the opposite sex than Sophia. That alone can be reason enough to give him more space, not to mention that he is the most popular character next to Sophia.
From my point of view, all the gangster stories in AWAM are somehow implausible. The Casio stroy with its subsequent visit to the prison is no exception. In my opinion AWAM would have been better off without Aiden and co. and more than that, i don't count any of this characters to be Dylan content.
Looking at how the story around LIam was structured, I think his strong plots would have been the one in his company (there were some really good looking female colleagues), the competitive relationship with Carl in the square between Liam/Sophia/Carl/Patricia and the event with the wedding preparations (swinger planed?). The fact that Liam is not very popular with the players is probably the reason he do not get much attention at the moment, but L&P put a lot of time creating content with him.
Strange how much one's own preference influences one's judgment. I think that Dylan has currently come off worst. Even the sex education children had more action from Sophia than him. Ellie made much better progress. And considering charakter outside the family, the events with Alyssa or Nathalie in the lesbian path and the Sam event in the hetero path were much further than anything Dylan had so far. If there is anyone who needs more content, it is Dylan.
But I'm not arguing for that. I do agree with you that Dylan comes off worst. He has made the slowest progress with Sophia so far. At the slowest rate. But that's precisely my point. Dylan's POV was pure fan-service and didn't serve the story in any way. It only gave Dylan the chance to see women naked. But not Sophia to invite Dylan to see it, which might have advanced the storyline. L&P could easily have introduced Dylan to Marie at the salon. If you take the popular events on the Dylan route like the Bikini Fashion show, and remove ones like Sophia pushing him on the swing, his progress would probably be much better. Around the time of the Yoga event, there were many posts here asking if it was going to be "another shitty lesbian update", so I suspect Dylan was added just to quell those people. Don't know if it was like that on Patreon.
Were you around in the thread around the time of the Yoga event? We had our own poll for hottest event. Despite Dylan being more popular at the time, it was the Ellie/Julia event that one. One of the main factors was that of the events chosen, there were 2 Ellie and about 6 Dylan. So all the Dylan votes were spread out, and an Ellie event won the day.
I suspect something similar is happening here. There's been so much focus on having Dylan events that the quality of each event and storyline suffers.