This is the thing, it's not a problem of 'this requires a kink I don't like', although it should be tagged appropriately if it's that core, it's the
Horrendous User Experience.
- Poor communication of goals
- Poor communication of progress
- Poor communication of what's necessary and what's not
- Poor feedback on the result of actions
- Poor story path construction with unlabeled dead ends
- Poor pacing (ie grind) that makes the whole experience more time consuming and annoying
If it's an incest game, fine there's tons of those. People can avoid it. The problem is the hidden requirement of a particular decision/action and no way to know what went wrong.
This game is something I should want to play, but it's just so... bad. I'm just basically hanging around hoping that someone makes a good cheat mod for it at this point, so I can enjoy the content without the constant agony that is playing this game.
Edit: The whole thing feels like a machine learning experiment gone awry. Like the dev knows all the things that are supposed to go into a sandbox game, but doesn't understand the why of any of them.