I don't understand where you're going with this.
It's a not so subtle reminder that the wants of
some people are different and oftentimes less extreme than the wants of other
some people.
Moaning about no sub Evelyn while bashing the discord for asking cuckshit for Brienne is hypocrisy.
Hmm. Actually I've got a few minutes to get down and dirty.
Right. I'm going to have to state first out that I don't care that much about Evelyn and I agree that she would be fine as is even if IIRC she's (potentially) getting a sub route maybe.
However!
These two (Brienne fucking Arona and Evelyn going Sub) are not equivalent. One is quite literally diametrically opposed to the entire concept of the character and it's inclusion, even optional, would grossly injure the characters appeal. "Let's have NPC x NPC #212" is not even in the same universe of comparability.
Especially in CoC2 where nearly no character has qualms about just sleeping around or having threesomes.
This is the kind of whatnot that NTR beggars make in true love RPGs. You're comparing a fetish and
player ingratiating attribute that can literally only exist if said character remains with MC one-itis in all possible routes. (Obvious there are damn good exceptions in that space but that requires a stellar caliber of writing who actually care about these things.)
An Evelyn who bottoms wouldn't suddenly scar Evelyns appeal even from a meta reason for people who aren't into that and has verifiably not done so for any of the other dom/sub characters that have existed across TWO games. You don't see people tossing Sera, Arona, or Ardia in the bin. You like a route/sexual dynamic. You choose one and disregard the other. Because the dynamic isn't wholly dependent on the character ALWAYS being a dom.
The characters personality is more than just their bedroom dominance unless you're dealing with an extremely shallow character. Sub Sera wouldn't be even remotely the same degree of popularity if you didn't have tons of her relationship dynamics in addition to the route, the caring for the kids at the nursery, those moments of vulnerability talking about how hard of a go she had of it, getting her business off the ground in a sustainable way this time, seeing her at times without the glimpse of the persona she wears, and yes those rebellious and playful streaks in her interactions.
it'll almost always feel superficial.
An oddly authoritative and clairvoyant statement. Superficial in what way?
Are the differences between sub and dom Berwynn superficial?
Rival and romance Kas?
High and low con Etheryn?
High and low libido Etheryn?
Dom or Sub Arona?
There's also the variety of examples I could pull from TiTS instead
Sera, Gianna, Ardia, etc.
Characters who have two different flavorful aspects of their characters.
Are all of those superficial? You may think so but plenty of people didn't and still enjoy these characters to date.
Writers for these games have shown multiple times in a very dominating fashion that they can handle changes to something as inane as sexual dominance without feeling "superficial"
They've also shown that they're fully equipped to handle multiple types of bedroom dynamics without needing adjustments to a characters personality.
Now as for Cait...
Actually I've done this before. And I'm loathe to retread old ground if I have nothing new to add.
Lastly
Whatever time is required to split characters could be used on another character or used on the same character without splitting them.
A common complaint across nearly every social space of these games are large amounts of characters/routes that get made and then remain halfbaked.
Shar, Ninian, Sugo, Zuzaan, Rival Kas, etc
Rather than exacerbate a problem that seemingly most spaces agree to be one, making more nuanced NPCs or expansions to them seems like a more ideal option.
Ahrmi wouldn't be even remotely as good as she is now without the dedicated ministrations of her author. Who seems to be doing their damndest to make her the most fleshed out non companion NPC in the game
Unless they get it right on the first time. Which some authors have shown an ability to consistently do.