Its weird to me what characters are considered "feature complete" or "done" basically, supposedly before the games even halfway done. Gwyn's a easy example but there's plenty others. As has been mentioned and gets more and more prevalent, new npcs continuously get added with ssdd content and about as much depth as literally anyones first attempt at erotica instead of making characters people are supposed to get attached to for smut, personality or both. *Supposedly* party members are supposed to continuously get more content, but the amount of characters you're supposed to get invested in that dead end is really weird and worrying.
Like again, for gwyn, shes one of the money sinks in the game. You can farm on story mode spamming right click with a double money accessory, and in a few irl days or so you might finally have put in the 512k for the nursery which eclipses every other purchase, including building a entire temple you're supposed to eventually earn money from and building and upgrading your fortress. She takes care of all of your children and will probably be one of the npcs you most consistently visit to keep tabs or stats on them. Her final interaction is after the gweyr quest finale she has a breakdown whenever you mention gweyr, has around 3 smut scenes total, and is considered done.
They keep adding content that's supposed to cause emotional reactions but don't focus on fewer, fully realized characters to make you actually feel something from it, and theyll announce stuff like "look at this cool thing coming out" that gets cancelled or sucker punched like Berwyn "being taken over by another writer and getting a ton of content" then being removed from combat permanently with no prior notice. It stopped being "wow I can't wait for (character) to get more content" and turned into "oh well a crazy horse expansion is ok I guess".
They can't hide behind party members being exceptions and the game being similar to a dragon age-type where npcs are cardboard but party members have tons of content either; for gods sake over half the party has been abandoned, and when they finally get someone to work on them we'll get another alypia, or takahiro getting a content update like 3 years after anybody would care. Surely even the cuck content suffers at some point, with no character development, who cares about cuckfort or swinging scenes? It's supposed to be a fetish about your partner banging someone else saying "uwu gang member chan's better than you loyal husband with job" but it's become more and more like someone on the street banging someone else. You've got characters like kinu getting solo content the entire game based on a mediocre niche different game with no smut content while many others are just proofs of concept. I guess it's sunk cost fallacy but if I'd been paying 30+ a month for their Patreon I'd be *pissed* and not talking about how great they are and attacking anyone who says otherwise.
