Except Sierra didn't write the story. The art, story, character design and personalities are and always were up to Nomo.
The things this game lost with her are more like proper dialogues, coherence in the narrative and communication with the fans. As i recall, she was the one who used to write the update posts and started their blog too.
What this game lost really was the devs passion. They wanted to do it and NN. Past from a point it just seems they got tired and annoyed of doing adult games, but force themselves to continue to pay the bills.
This is why the game went downhill and will continue, they don't care anymore, as long they can not work and milk patreon they will, since the job market on any country of the world this days is pretty shitty right now, they will milk this as long as possible before leaving.
Print my post and bring it back when they abandon or "finish" this game rushing and never do an adult game again. People can pay, leave, give ideas, complain, it don't matter. When someone is not happy and don't want to work with something, it won't work (SPECIALLY a job that requires creativity, ask this to any songwriter, actor, musician, author, writer, etc.).
