I can't even tell if all of this is too much hatred or too much love at this point
I think it’s because everybody can see that game has artistically and technically the potential of being one of the best if not the best, but the story is so bad it’s borderline trolling.
First there are the fetishes. The game takes place in a school, obviously the fetish implied here is to have sex with teenage girls, but the only sex scene is with a mature woman. That’s a porn troll, and not the good kind. I understand we can’t fuck one of the main girls right at the beginning but why not “secondary” students?
It’s a training game and the fetish associated with training games is to manage to have sex with unwilling girls without raping them. The game is supposed to be about carefully manipulate reluctant girls into having sex, except here the girls are rather horny and secretly quite willing… but there is no sex.
And of course there are the long, long walls of text about the school politics. I’m on the fence on that because it’s awfully done here, but if done well it could lead to a great story by offering various ways of getting into the girls’ pants. For example the player could manipulate the board to create an art class, then convince them that an art class needs naked models. Or gain the right to go into the girls’ dormitory (let’s pretend the player can’t do it right away and need to overcome that obstacle). Or gain access to the archives which contain juicy secrets. Or gain access to students’ grades because one girl had poor ones and if she accepts to be really nice an arrangement could be met.
A fleshed out background offers endless opportunities to carefully weave a web around the girls to corrupt them, if done right. But right now it’s not used at all and the only thing it achieve is to define the opposite of arousing.
The game has the potential to be one of the greatest but it’s being sabotaged by the story, and I think that’s why people are mad.