I think you've been playing too many of these other corruption games with the village slut. Even those rarely feature full on rape like the subway scene would have been. In the real world rape is a very traumatic experience and it would have the opposite effect on the woman. She would definitely not want any type of sexual encounter after that for a long time.Most of the corruption would be more believable if the two thugs in the subway were actually allowed to rape her, and even though she's raped, it excited her, an excitement that sex with hubby doesn't give her, so she could try these other routes to try and find that excitement again, with Dylan the excitement comes with him being her son and totally taboo, with Sam that he is the son of her next door neighbours, with the Janitor because of his Big Black Cock. I mean we already sort of get it with her tasks from Aiden, they are humiliating for her but they also excite her.
Just because the game is called a wife and a mother, it doesn't mean that the main focus of the game is that she has to fuck the husband and the children. It just means that her being a wife and/or mother is relevant to the story. She is doing Aiden's tasks because she is a mother and protecting her child. She could do some stuff with Liam's boss because she is a wife. She does stuff with Sam even though she is a wife.Sadly, I very much do agree with you. I can't in the past say there is too much going on and L&P needs to cut characters, then not be OK with the side jobs coming to an end.
I've said this before, the filthy route is Sophia with Dylan, and the lesbian route is Sophia with Ellie, and the good wife route is Sophia with Liam (swinging route). Every other character was there to help Sophia to the point she crossed the line with Dylan and Ellie. Sophia did that with Dylan in the last update and can say she already did that with Ellie in the scene with Julia at the pool. Yes, Sophia hasn't gone all the way with them but what she did do was significant.
Other characters can be tied in, like Sam and/or Zach with Dylan, Julia or Patricia with Ellie. They're certainly can be some crossover between routes but updates should always have Sophia with Liam, Ellie or Dylan.
There are some loose ends that need to be tidied up first and things come to a logical end, but the side jobs, Aiden tasks, and any more maid stuff need to all come to an end.
I do agree that there are some side stories that are just that, like the old guys side job, or the tutoring the kids one. I don't know about the old guys side story, but from what I've read the tutoring job is one of L&P's favorite ones so I'm sure he won't cut that out.
I don't think cutting out stuff is the way to go, even with content I don't care about. Maybe some other people care about it and it seems unfair to them, after all these years to not get anything. I think the only real solution is for L&P to pick up the pace. As he can't do it alone, it's already been shown, the only real hope is hiring a team at some point and then starting to be efficient. At least once every 2 months type of deal.