I'm gonna go ahead and say that I don't think the game harps on too much about you being special outside of your connection to Kas and magical special soul/portal magic thing, both of which could be viewed as being irrelevant to how strong your character is in the grand scheme of things. I personally don't like the combat system too much to be fair but I wouldn't tie it to a failing in the writing. Just more that the combat is even more of an automatic snoozefest than their other games, where at least in TiTS and CoC1 it felt like your choices had impact with how effective you are in combat, whether or not that is actually true.
The lack of Masculine Male on Male Champion is really bad in CoC2, off hand I can only really recall Brint as a potential option. To bring Observer up again, its pretty clear Observer has no interest in writing Guy on Guy stuff which is fine, but due to them disallowing others to write for their characters we'll probably never get any gay scenes of their male characters. Its extra weird because I'm pretty sure they've also said that their characters being gay would make them massively out of character, but I don't have a source on that so I dunno. I think it just sucks that at current if you're in to men your choices are generally limited to femboys and brint (as far as I remember, not counting enemy rape).
