What bothered the players in AL (in my opinion) was not the drama itself, it was the fact that it was inevitable, and that no one saw it coming (which is normal).I don´t know, man. Most of the time I think that DPC is not going to repeat the ending of AL that nobody liked, and I have written here comments saying that. But truth is, DPC seems to have an uncanny love for drama. He has set a lot of situations in this plot that can´t be easily solved and seems to be preparing us for a shitstorm the lasts chapters. Actually, it would be disappointing that situations as rotten as the one of Quinn and Burke, with prostitution of underaged students and drugs traffic, or the one of Bella and her missing husband, at the end become in a storm into a glass of water. It would be much ado for nothing.
You are right, in BaDIK, there is drama, and these are pretty serious subjects. We're going to have some tough times between now and the end of the game, but given how the game is going so far, we'll have an influence on what happens.
DPC will not do the AL move a second time. We will have difficult things to do, we will have situations complicated by our choices, but we will not have a big drama that pops up out of nowhere to change everything without being able to do anything about it.