MC-Lara scenes are no where matches the kinky hardcore level of Lara-other men, especially there is no BDSM sex machines. Also scenes like hardcore deep-throat, rough anal etc almost little to be found for MC-Lara scenes. I dont know, may be vanilla lovers have no issues in it, But the players who are looking for hardcore kinky BDSM level of sex scenes but not into NTR are gonna seriously decieved when look at NTR route content for comparision.
That's an opinion. I see your point that if people see BDSM screen grabs of Lara and come here for that but avoid NTR they might be disappointed. But people have also griped about how over the top the dungeon scene with Lara was.
IMO I'd call any scene with 2 people more vanilla than any scene with 3 regardless of level of bdsm. So I will take cuckqueen over BDSM all day if I am forced to choose, especially if the dom is a non-MC. Gangbangs and MMFs are too gay for my orientation and I don't have a necrophilia fetish to accomodate Tony.
Personally, I roll my eyes at sex machines. Just doesn't remotely do anything for me by itself (but the one was a good plot device for anal with Angelica). And just personally Lara is second or third to last for characters I am interested in seeing dommed.
Maybe Lara sub could be a distinct thing like lara cuckqueen and then have NTR and non-NTR varriations.
But for me the best of all worlds be MC and Lara co-domming a pet. That would be divine.
Dev has a lot of competing interests shouting at him. I sympathize.
