Hmmm. You know I had an entire different post planned up defending Cait and saying it couldn't possibly be cuck content. But, when thinking about it from the actual definition? Like that thing where if you do the Eve foursome once you can just go in there and see her giving titjobs to evelyn? Or that thing with Berwyn? The wildhorse? That's the fetish.
I mean I know you're using cuck interchangeably with NTR or the non fetihis version of cuckoldry and I disagree with that label. She says she's going to bang everything before the relationship and the proclamation of love is ultimately meaningless as you're still not exclusionary in literally anything including intimate moments.
People conflate NTR with cuckoldry (the fetish). Though to be fair everybody including Savin generally does so clearly it's an easy mistake to make.
Though "involve the player" is a misnomer. A voyeur scene is still a voyeur scene even if you're making out with the girl getting plowed by the bull.
If we're talking from the context not exclusive to CoC2 then yeah a good amount of people are hostile towards all open/cuck/ntr. You can't appeal to them. There's no justification you can use to include that fetish and continue to appeal towards them. It's an extremely binary interaction.
For NTR specifically, you'll see games made where they attempt to appeal to people who are antagonistic towards the genre as well as fans of the genre and they use every excuse under the sun: Mind control, addictive cum, possession, enchanted dick, weird curses, dream manipulation, and whatever else you can think of including "it's optional". It very seldom works.
Occasionally you'll get that individual with a patreon/itch-io and a dream thinking they'll be
the one to bend boundaries or introduce people to 'their world'. "If'n I just show that the emotional connection is stronger than the physical one...!". It rarely works.
Some savants really truly can get people in the door of their 'wide-appeal' game. I can think of quite a few games that, while not having changed my enjoyability of various fetishes in general, are certainly written well enough that I can enjoy them in my own way regardless of anything else included in the project. I played one not that long ago where the main goal was the kind of degradation of a character to a degree I'm really not a fan of but has the ability to wrap to an end where everybody gets what they want in a way that I was ultimately satisfied with.
More often however, I end up getting hit with second-hand pain when I see the developers who show up on this site exasperated about that NTR tag overpowering literally everything they do regardless of how little they add or how much they revise. Them's the breaks. Don't play with fire, etc.
Though I guess that's more of a case of "don't visit f95 threads for your game if your game isn't community driven". About the best thing to say about the team of this game is that they don't visit this website. I can be as candid as I want without frizzling some artists feelings.