I see most of the choice in AWAM (e.g. if we want to have something with the old guys or not) as a disadvantage, because to me it just feels like you're only skipping story parts instead of making real decisions with consequences. It's never really about what Sophia's goals are as the main character, it's always about what kink you choose or don't choose as a player. To be honest, I find this to be AWAM's weak point.What makes the game great is Sophia as a character - I think we can all agree on that. What got me personally interested in this game as opposed to something like Big Brother was the female protagonist, and the fact that it wasn't just a male protag incest game. That we could actually choose if the female had sex with the old, ugly and/or fat dude. Or kid.
Years later, I can still count on one hand the amount of games I follow that have that. What we might actually be seeing with the latest poll results is L&P trying to get into both realistic AVNs and the shota incest market, and starting to backfire. With it being about 20 years before Dylan gets his chance with Sophia, people can easily get far more bang for their buck supporting games like Glamour, where the son character in that actually does have a harem. Last I checked, in the female MC path too.
In the last couple of months I've noticed a few MILF games spring up. Not with enough content to compete with this yet, but at the rate L&P is releasing content, it's not going to be far off. Hell, Mother's Devotion has two son characters.
Also, I don't think the choice of a female main charater is what makes AWAM so good. Instead, what AWAM does so well is the quality of the content in general. Lets face it. Most games here (no matter if the have incest content or not) are just garbage. There is a lack of story and even more a lack of comprehensible characters and dialogues. That's where AWAM and a few other games here stand out. But this would have also worked with Dylan instead of Sophia as MC. I even suspect that it would have been the better choice, since the goals of the player would have matched those of the MC and there would not have been this strange difference between player decision and progress in game. I don't know how many times now I have confirmed to Sophia that it is not a problem at show her breasts, and still I am confronted with this always same inner conflict. It was interesting at the beginning, but now it's really starting to become frustrating rather than fun. I would rather play a character that has real goals that I can try to achieve. I don't care that this perspective has already been taken in other games. Even more, I think there are good reasons why this perspective was used and you can see that AWAM is slowly reaching its limits here with Sophia as MC.