I've just finished all the quests, it took me 10-15h to complete everything. All I can say is : yes, there is already a narrative justification. Even more there is a lot of potential with a kind-of faction system that will compete each other. For now there is no blocking point to work with all the factions at the same time. But we can already see that the devs aren't scared of pushing the player to choose the least bad option rather than choosing the best option (in light of our contemporary morality). I mean you can be the white knight saving a cursed region, and at the same time catching innocent people like Pokémon to own them as slaves. I've been genuinely surprised by the way some quests turned out.
UE4 version felt more organic, with way more NPC, the map felt more alive. But quests were a bit drowned under a main point of finding all the sex scenes. With UE5 they've started to develop a real lore to justify sex. Which is, I think, cool. The game now makes sense not just as a sandbox of sex scenes with superb visuals, but as a real game (with superb visuals).
