Because it would be jarring to see a character who was afraid of her own shadow a chapter ago turn into a hard dom overnight. People didn't like that I said Ashe is meek by nature last time and now people are shocked that the story is portraying exactly that.
Except that she's meeker in this chapter than she was in the previous chapters. As laid out by my comment above. In spoilers of course. There are several events in the previous chapters where Ashe can choose a more dom option. In this chapter there is only
Do you want to fuck Lexi yay or nah and "ask for a blowjob" that gets denied
Her stutter has been dialled up to eleven, again like I laid out in my previous comment. She is now base sub path that is meeker and far less fiery than she was prior to getting the 3 path options.
Once you've played this chapter, replay the previous ones. I'm really curious if you'd still think she was meeker before.
Well there you go then. It's about if you prefer illogical sensual fucking or natural character development. That said I do agree the siren path needs some fine-tuning. Wouldn't need to change much but just some slight adjustments here and there.
Just because it's slow or non-existent doesn't mean it's automatically logical or natural. If the MC started acting more confident or at least trying, I'd agree with you. But as it currently stands it's beyond just fine tuning. Most of the dialogue would need to be hauled over to start being believable for the siren route. As it's not just Ashe speaking differently, the other characters would be reacting differently to her as well.
Like I can understand if that's too much work, as it would require renders with different expressions from both Ashe and whoever she's interacting with.
The only reasonable alternative I can think of would be a more neutral path that can branch into dom, sub and cuck. At least when it comes to development time.
Even HAHT had more build up with the internal dialogue for the dom route. It's not a bolt out of the blue, though it is a heavy shift.
