wow so if it were up to Dev Ashe I would be more miserable? hahahahahaha god that's funny and sad at the same time.
Although I personally don't think Ashe has had it all that bad, it's not that she's exactly having a great time but it's not that bad either, she feels like any ordinary person dealing with everyday problems.
That's fair, it could be worse, but there's also a lot of things she's going through that she didn't really deserve.
Rachel for example, she knows that Ashe has some serious mental health issues that are mainly revolving around anxiety as Rachel was the person basically looking after Ashe for the longest time, yet she flipped her shit despite knowing this and ended up essentially ruining their relationship. I still feel like their little meeting and make up feels cheap compared to how much Ashe must have suffered losing her one rock in life that she could depend on, as even if Fiona is a good friend, it wasn't to the level of Rachel.
Then you have her getting constantly picked on by Isabella who has some extremely questionable morals.
Then you have Vanessa using Ashe as a drug mule and dragging her into a "date" that ended with Ashe getting potentially humiliated by taking a random cumshot to the face.
Then you have Zoey being weirdly manipulative and seemingly focused on fucking Ashe even though Ashe wasn't exactly comfortable with it until the very last moment.
I can pull up some more examples but the general gist is that every character in this game (besides Fiona I guess) just uses Ashe for their own ends and goals, to their own whim, none of them actually
respects her as a human being or someone with emotions, her sister being especially bad given that she tried to come back and just pretend that nothing happened, and then their make up felt very shallow on top of that.
So yeah, things could be "worse" in that she could be in worse scenarios, but it's hard to say that things could be worse in regards to the people she interacts with.
This exact kind of Futa character was in another Futa game called The Red Room. Futa, butch built body type cop who was also giving a rapist vibe. Its like most dev can't get over some stereotype, like if the character is built, they are probably rapists, or like a Black Guy's purpose in erotica is to be the dude NTRing others, especially a white dude. Not once have I seen a game with a black protagonist or a Black guy being a genuine lovable charismatic person. And if some game there are Black futa, 80% of the time they give rapist vibes.
It's intriguing that you mention this as I am pretty sure this game is inspired by The Red Room, though I've personally never played it.
And yeah, devs tend to fall into tropes exceedingly hard unfortunately, which does tend to sour games for me more often than not. I also feel like most devs just simply don't understand the difference between a dominant character and a dom.
Hell, they don't really understand the difference between a dominant character and a rapist dipshit, as a well written dominant character tends to be more respectful but take no shit.