It's less about the NTR and how poorly crafted many believe him to be.
I didn't like him first and foremost because of the NTR angle but I grew to just dislike him as a character and finally because the writing was garbage.
Picture this:
Mom starts seeing a new guy. You decide you're happy for her.
Guy comes over, bangs her a few times and right away starts trying to seduce Alice and Lisa.
Mom decided that the guy banging her is right and picks his side in every little thing.
Max must be some sort of interminable scumbag for his own mother to not have his back.
The one time Max actually DID shine as far as I'm concerned is when he ratted the crook out to the mafia.
Well he Erik is supposed to be a scumbag , he is sly , he wants the familly girls. But lets face it , he was a threat that made the game early unpredictible , we can sell alice to save kira or chose not to. He would try to get rid of us , and so we would do too. The part with mom taking Erik part is understandable , Erik is a mature man and Max is a kid a horny one at that. Dont tell me Max isnt a saint in this equation , far from it . Yes we relate to Max cause we play him (wouldve been nice to play as Erik and claim the familly to ourself though) but both of them are bad , yes Max is less bad cause well he cares for his familly but he would do anything to bang them.
Tell me in this current iteration without Erik the game is well grindy with no goal atm , at least in big brother ,when we get rid of Erik and claim our familly we feel great , here we get everything easy without consequences.
I dont want to say anything about Kate story (because i didnt play it and i dont want to be a hypocrite) cause well Big brother was the 1st game i supported on patreon ( 6 months with 5 $ each) and was good back than , even now i cant forgive the dev for not giving us Olivias mom . I dont understand why doesnt he port the scenes from the original so the time between max's updates would be shorter?