Trust me, that's the first path. The other was included mainly for people who don't want Anna to get involved in more extreme stuff. Initially Deep intended to allow people to have Anna leave the Bar completely. In fact during the last Bar scene in Chapter 1, there's a choice to do just that. But in Chapter 2 he changed his mind, and created two bar paths, which allows us to get rid of Patrick, in the same way we can rid of Jeremy, and thus have remove the blackmail oriented content.
I think originally he intended to have Anna take part in optional content, when she was in the Bar. And I suspect it was going to be in the sauna, because he has Anna starting to practise as a masseuse at one point ( she has a scene with Fitzgerald). But nothing ever came of that. Because I think they decided it was going to be too much work, having a completely different option from two paths in the Bar, where they can use a lot of the renders in both paths.
I don't think Deep ever intended originally to have separate paths at work or in the Bar. I think Anna was intended to be blackmailed, and in the Bar at least she had to go along with it, till you were given the chance to opt out. There was never going to be alternatives. You either went along with the blackmail and got the relevant sex scenes, or you opted out, and got nothing. Because essentially the game is about Anna getting blackmailed and how that corrupts her as she deals with the consequences. I think what changed was that a lot of people were playing the game, that Deep probably didn't envisage initially. Who wanted Anna to be different. So over time his initial concept has evolved, and he's decided to provide options that probably weren't going to be in the game. So we get the chance for Anna to be less victimised and more proactive, and content that reflects that, rather than having her just opt out completely.
