that wasn't what I said, read my post again, and then read what ANGEL_KATE wrote about Kates line, I said - skip buttons for both in case you want to skip and it doesn't conflict with the line you're actually playing, but at least you have some glimpse of the events of the "other" side and they don't "feel" disconnected to the player, I for instance didn't know Max was involved in Kates line and that those events are completely missing from the Maxes side of the story, now I'm playing Kates line (struggling to be honest, because I'm not interested in most of her line at all) just to see what she was up with Max, Ann and Alice, and how it ties into Maxes side of the gameYou don't care if you play as a male or female and you think you can fix the game? lolz. I hate to break it to you but there are more people who want the game to be Max centered and pay for that. I don't see why any of them would have to sit through that Kate crap so a minority get to see Kate fuck the guy of the week becasue he passed the ketchup.
so had it been 1 story with 2 "playable" characters from the start, I wouldn't have missed few chunks of story I was interested in, kind of like one of the Halo games where you play MC for a while and then the covenant character, I don't think its bad at all, and as I said - it might be better for dev morale to feel that the work put into either forks isn't mostly wasted because only few are interested in one of them