Fully agreed. Mal had a head start for the same reasons for me as well. After that, Jaye, no matter how well written she was, just couldn't beat first impressions. I could put everything aside if she smoked others in hotness scale but there was no such gap.
I don't think the open relationship thing is misleading at all, it perfectly fits Jaye's character. I've said before, but this game is mostly about Jaye and the relationship between her and MC. That girl loved MC since she was 9, that's when she wanted that ring and imagined MC proposing to her with it. MC loved her too already back then (the tingling feeling during the bed fort scene that he did not understand).Yes this is true for the good and for the bad, Jaye is very well written and the dynamic between her and the MC is powerful, but on an extreme example, there is some very well written villains around and even though I guess many more will still cheer for the hero even if has less depth than the antagonist.
I'm with darkcaptainfighter, even though the former is true I enjoyed more the fresh relationship and dynamic between the MC and Mal, so no you are not an oddball and you are not alone in your preference for sure but yes I believe that probably there is more Jaye fans than Mallory's and it is understandable.
On the players choice statistics your signature it the best answerFacts don't care about (our) feelings, and as former scientist student and later/now Quality technicien I rely a lot on facts and statistics/probabilities so I also "follow" (not blindly) that motto.
If I wasn't that kind of player that plays almost every path possible, and I did play all the 4 main paths and the alone path (later after chapter 9 was released), probably I only would play the solo Mallory path that was my main playthrough all the way (but wouldn't play the game over) when I replayed all the paths after the release of chapter 9 misleading conclusion of Jaye and Mallory open relationships that didn't gone the way I thought it would and at the time it was my only playthrough. Got pretty pissed at the time but the game is so well written I decided to start a new main playthrough focusing on Mallory that at the time already was my favorite.
Side note : sorry about the last paragraph, English isn't my first language and had troubles to put my train of thought into words, after read it, it seems confusing even for me
There is various options/outcomes, you can keep going on the solo Jaye, solo Mal, dump both or be dumped by both. I used that playthrough and dumped her both and began the "alone" path, that I also would get by being dumped by both.
It doesn't seem to have been posted in the zone yet. Dark Assassin DA has created one.
For me,
In the game I followed the same path as you (Jaye love path) and I will only quote your last sentence, but I agree with everything you wrote, word for word: I am only expressing my personal opinion based on my personal tastes, but of all the AVNs I have played so far, this is definitely in the top 3 if not in first place.
Leaving aside physical appearance, which is largely a matter of personal taste (in my opinion Jaye is gorgeous), I think it's mainly a question of empathy.
There's a lot of gorgeous girls in this. Apart from Jaye & Mal; Lisa, Bianca, Tara, Amanda are all stunning. (and I could keep going).
You get a broader picture if you look at all the ending achievements at once.
Exactly and the blended family is just the last one because of the way it is gotten, if there was a path to get it in an open relationship with both I guess it was 2nd and probably really close with Jaye solo, it is not so intuitive to get as the others ones but I believe this was intended like it was a special harder ending with specific requirements to get.
and I gladly do it. At least now there is a resume on how to get the poly ending on the OP.
In addition to narrative reasons, Stoya has said they deliberately made the poly ending hard to achieve because with the personalities involved, they believed it would be challenging to achieve in real life too. So you're definitely not wrong there.
Yeah, got tired of finding my old quotes about getting the poly ending so literally just slapped it into a PDF so it could be linked in OP.For a weird comparison in CoBD there is an alone special ending with an epilogue with 2 of the main LIs and a special bonus scene in a less intuitive path to get it. Forgot how many people I tried to help on both those "special" endings with either screenshots with URM or pdf walkthrough screenshots
Yeah, got tired of finding my old quotes about getting the poly ending so literally just slapped it into a PDF so it could be linked in OP.
yes I always forget there is a bookmark posts feature so it gets easier to locate them and use it on posts I may want/need to re-post or quote. 
Sorry, but this not exactly accurate. That's incorrect if you are not on her route
