Yeah, I'd prefer artfully posed versus a picture of a pussy. I also don't think rendering ability is up to giving us good looking pussies yet. I've looked at the fan-art people have done of this game, and seen the art in other games, and it still looks off to me. You have these great faces, great bodies, and great breasts. Then you have something that approximates a pussy, and looks less realistic once you stick a dick in it. Sometimes you get the pink ring of doom around it, or something else to make it look off.I don't mind that. I know what pussies look like; I prefer an artfully posed scene to HERE'S A PUSSY BY THE WAY LOOK LOOK IT'S A VAGINA. The point of the spider thing is, I assume, to provide a polite fiction that allows Alice to accept Max sleeping in her bed. Plausible deniability. Just wandering in with the goods on display destroys that deniability, so it seems appropriate to me.
It probably sounds weird, but as long as the game guides me to that mental state where I know I'm about to have sex with a character, then all I need from there is some basic visual or textual clues, and then I'm good. My imagination does the rest. I don't need closeups of the sex; I'm fine with an image of both people, with hopefully her face telling me exactly what's going on. Then again, I got off on purely text-based erotic porn for so long that I see images like in this game as an enhancement versus the core of the game. People more used to video stimulation would obviously feel much different.