I've never had an issue with ups and downs with this game or their others, have been a stalwart patron of MrDots' team for some time.
Just when D's personality was branching out and she seemed on the verge of independent thinking that still kept in touch with the MC through mutual love, now we learn it's never been an equal part of her growth path. Instead, we're in this ride for the MC going forward.
It's not as if shtupping other guys was a necessary path for D to take in order to mature, but the entire point about her leaving her mother's cage was to choose her own path and this is one way in which she was expressing free choices in her life. In Chapter 3 it became evident that what was important to D was experiencing all life had to offer in still-responsible ways, never losing sight of the grounding in her relationship with the MC. She had so few close and/or intimate relationships in life, so she wanted to see what it was all about. And she couldn't deny loving it.
But now, that was all a lie: it meant nothing. And with it, I am guessing that many other aspects of self-determination are going a similar way. The ending has been sanitized, for unlike a path where Melody might live without the MC, here it seems proscribed that she stay anchored under the metaphorical weight of his heavy shlong - while he brings in other female friends (with whom he has already been cheating on D) for minor spice.
For the first time ever, I'm thinking heavily of my position as a never-die patron - a position I thought unlikely to occur. This is not just a change in focus or reset of an experiment, but it seems a bad faith fuck-you to a subset of fans who were happy to see a variety of growth paths and maturation possibilities with D. And now we see telegraphing of the ever-fuckable, baby-mommy path as our only option. It was always going to be part of their path together, but now with a heavy dose of vanilla-flavored Valium.
"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."