Yeah it's weird, I thought it took a year to get tagged abandoned, but it sounds like a rework anyway so in effect I guess the original did get abandoned. My main complaint about sandboxes is if you want to replay it with different choices/outcomes (assuming there are any) then you will need to do the whole thing again, you can't ctrl-skip read dialog like you can a regular just-choices AVN. Aside from the fact when I'm in a fap-to-AVN mood I just want the story, it kills my boner if I have to deal with game elements too like map or house navigating, watching the time/day, puzzles, farming money, etc. To appease those into sandboxes for whatever strange reasons some AVNs have both options; same story, but reader chooses at the beginning which format they want (sandbox or just choices). As far as removing incest, to some like other lesser-used kinks that was the main selling point. It's really not the same and dialog tends to feel awkward when that topic comes up if it wasn't written with incest in mind from the start but simple titles are changed. For one the inner confict/weirdness to get over before fucking commences and the dialog that goes with that just generally isn't there at all with best friends. It's why some incest mods completely rewrite sections of the story when it mentions LI's that were changed to moms, cousins or sisters (ie Love Season, but that one was a bit overdone imo, the entire village is mostly one big family after the mod).