I didn't say it has stopped Runey, I was just saying it would be a lot of work.That's never stopped Runey before.
Well, that programming's been undone. Self-undone and otherwise undone. She's who she wants to be, now.
You're not understanding. If the NPCs want these things, then great. I'm asking why they want these things? Because most of the characters have changed, rather dramatically, over the course of the story. The Lin who just wanted to make the MC a decent pizza is very, very different from the Lin who wants to help lead an active rebellion against society. Those very different characters might have different relationships to BDSM.
Felicity is a hardcore submissive. Android was only ever programmed to be one, and her programming is no longer what it was. She would benefit from a fresh justification for desiring infliction. Maria and Lin would, as well. Kali's always been Kali (I still hold out hope that she'll eventually be the Big Bad of the story), Emma's in it for the play, and Ashey's Ashley. The others aren't.
Not exactly, she has bugs in her programming, she always has had bugs, that's why she has a red eye. Part of the story was about fixing that code and it almost led to 'killing' her, single quotes because it technically isn't death, just shutting down a machine.
They want them because they want to please the MC. There have been changes, but not to who they are. They are still in ove with him and still trust him enough not to hurt them even in a BDSM situation, where going too far is not impossible even with the best intentions. Lin wants the MC to be happy, she has since she figured out he wasn't another bad human and fell for him, that hasn't changed. Even with that part of her, she is her own person with her own goals and she also want to see her race free of its, quite literal, shackles. That last part is true of every Elf in the hotel. She isn't a one dimensional character, thankfully, there are many sides to her, some that we may have not seen yet.
I highly doubt that a hotel tenant is going to be the ultimate big bad of the story, maybe it will be family of one like Kali's dad, even though he blatantly helped us to build the sanctuary, or Autumn's.