Hopefully team bieno will make some changes, put in a little bit of everything or almost everything and give more freedom of choice to players, so we can choose what we want and dont want on our play and obviously making sure those choices dont interfere with important quests and stuff.
The affection part, that also crossed my mind, that could be a progression feature, but the doggirl scene stands a bit out on that line of though. It could just be that it was just added out of the sake of having one affection scene and its out of order, like its the final one instead of the first. But that is only if they really intend to do some kind of progression affection scenes, if it really is just one per monster type, its just weird.