Even if a story-driven game like this or AWAM released when it was finished, you'd still get complaints from people who don't like the fact that they have to read/skip through lots of text in order to get the sex scenes (of course, not having text would defeat the purpose of these being "
Visual Novels", but don't try telling them that
).
The problem is that a lot of people look at all of these as being purely "porn games" and think that they should have copious amounts of easy sex and no story, and it's unfortunate because really good, story-driven games, particularly those that try to have a grounded sense of realism in their games and build up to the sexual content, have a hard time breaking through as a result of this thought process, even though they're generally the best games out there.