Sierra is just a consummate professional. People wishing she would somehow come back to this or revive the project on her own don't seem to understand the Hreinn stuff was more of just a job/collab to her.
Even for Noxian Nights her general feelings are more-or-less "I was asked to make a corruption game so I gave it a try". She is a good game designer and writer but she didn't have the creative control and wasn't interested in making run-of-the-mill corruption games, so with KoD she probably reached a point where she wasn't creatively invested in it and didn't really think the job was worth the hassle anymore.
I don't think SL is super opposed to non-con as long as it has narrative relevance, she just won't write it as a random meaningless scene for the player to beat off to. The amount of people that complained back in the day about how there wasn't an option to let Sabia be groped/raped by the random orcs during her waitress job must have been exhausting.
Anyway, with the game now officially dead, the best hope is for an eventual spiritual successor/remake. I don't think anything like that will come from Sierra though, at most I could only see it as very loosely related if she decides to make a project centered around a female protagonist ascending to power through cunning and manipulation, using sex as a weapon, etc etc.
Well... If its a job and she open to something new, why not give it a shot? Fan of the game can even like raise a kick-start fund to show commitment. Better to try and lose, rather then just to accept defeat. Even if it would be spiritual succesor rather then KoD itself.
And even if she refuse -- well, Enigmatic vouched to be ready. We can use rised kick-started fund for that reboot instead. I'm not a coder, but ready to try to help with some writing or support materials if necessary (like to draw map for setting or something). And even if there is no artist, well, at very least we can have AI. It can be at least work as placeholder until somebody would not be interested in rebooted project. Thus, only question would be a coder, really.
I was a fly on the wall for those convos in Discord and Patreon. It was a number of things.
1 - Creative differences: Nomo and NDS felt that her story lines and world-building were too much. They didn't want to have to do so much work.
2 - Personal tastes:
A: Sierra wanted Sabia to have more opportunities for lesbian romances.
B: Sierra is not a fan of non-con.
She wrote non-con scenes for NN because Nomo and the fans wanted it. But she didn't agree with how much rape and gangbang content Nomo and NDS wanted in KoD.
I would prefer story about rising-to-power lesbian as mentioned above far better than another slop of eroge by plot.I dont even care and just de-install if there is nothing to be invested in.
Non-con... well, why not let it be optional as instrument sometimes (which makes in con actually?..), but I agree, it should be sensible to a plot.
Thus essentially, I believe everyone now understood, that another bimbofied protagonist is rather detriment to the game then supporting wet eroge.
