I am not convinced
let's assume that surely the choice of the eighth chapter will close some roads, but surely not all, even with the LIs, that can in no way be the ultimate choice, and without temptations what boredom would the game be at that point?
and then let's face it serenely, really in your runs, in most of them, did you pursue multiple relationships? are you that masochistic? even without DPC doing that in most of the runs THE CHOICE had already been made, and in those runs we were faced with a choice with only one option, I would say a pretty easy one. in all those runs what happened in chapter 8 simply won't change anything.
will the new chapter have so much exclusive content? may be, we'll see. the scenes in the gallery are more than usual, but not so much more to think of who knows what change.
one change there might be is to have some common scenes but remade with the participation of the chosen LI (and maybe some secondary girls as well), for example MC dancing at the party with one or the other, but I don't expect so much more than that
Yes I have a run by LI, or at least a run where chasing two LI is not incompatible (until episode 8).
So you're right, in terms of content, we're already used to having several runs, so to spread the content over several runs, which won't change with episode 9.
In fact, I'm not saying that the choice of LI is definitive at the end of episode 8, but that by choosing one, we have definitively put an end to any chance of a relationship with the others. Either because the run is dedicated to an LI, so we didn't take the relationship points during the eight chapters with the others. Either because we actively rejected the girl during episode 8.
I also think that to simplify the job, DPC is not going to provide several second chances with the LI, not at this stage of the game. If the MC is not with an LI at this moment of the game, it's too late .
(There is the separate case of Maya and Josy, in case the MC is not with them and if they break up, I think the MC will have a chance with one of them.)
Then, there are plenty of things (and Zoey) that will jeopardize the relationship between the MC and the LI chosen in episode 8.
For the sides girls (maybe not right away from episode 9), after a while it will become complicated for the MC to have a serious relationship with an LI and to continue banging all the girls in the university.