Hi again!
First off, I might be one hard and consistent critic of SOME parts of LTNI, but I also praise what i liked! For instance, I liked and still like the vanilla path of LTNi quite much and would also tell others to try it if they like stories in that vein. NTR paths, which I always played on fast forward for only completition reasons seems to be quite NTRish, so the fans of that genre should be happy. No problems on that front. And my critic was always aimed at the results of your handiwork, not you as a person.
The main elefant in the room is our opposed views on sharing or better said our differing views about the basic definitions of sharing. Despite what you seem to think, I never told you how to do sharing. At the beginning of the "NTR/Sharing" path I actually even gave you the benefit of doubt what you wanted to do. Then I waited for something resembling sharing and waited and waited and got nothing remotely resembling sharing. Even Griev, who went as far as insulting me months ago for my hardline stance, has now given up on the "sharing" path it seems. Going by his words, Arianna is back being an untrustworthy, lying cheater, which the MC should kick out sooner than later. And pardon me that is not and never will be sharing!
The thing is (and your only failure in this) you seem to think going by your posts that you can slap any label on a thing and call it that, no matter what others think. While there is a myriad variants of tables, in thousands of styles, the label "table" comes with some absolutely basic definitions and these are general! Telling someone you bought these nice table will give them an image of some table in their mind until you specify more. They will not imagine a couch or a fridge in their mind, when you tell them about a table!
And this is where you failed with the sharing path of LTNI! You tell us it is a sharing path, but it never happened to become a sharing path, because it does not meet that most basic criteria of sharing! Just look into some of the Sharing/Swinging/Netorase dedicated threads of F95, where you can easily see what the netorase fans like and dislike. They like openness, trust, characters deciding together, some rules they abide by (changes to these riules possible if BOTH agree), no humiliation (humiliation roleplay only if decided on together for some), characters showing some love and consideration to their SO.
LTNI simply does not have a path which meets even these basic criteria for any length of time! Starting the path with NTR stuff was not the best idea, but that could have been rectified (even a variant start of sharing like you intended) with a slow or fast shift towards sharing events. But this does not happen, there are one or two events you could call with some gooodwill sharing, BUT the Arianna of today is still a self-serving, untrustworthy weasel and cheater! And the events clearly NTR!
To put it figuratively, you tell us for months that you will make a car (sharing), but with a different start(NTR), so you lay down a ship keel(NTR) first. But instead of over time continuing to construct the promised vehicle carriage, you keep on working on the ship keel and constructing a ship. When the ship is nearly finished you tell us to look at the fine car you are making. And somehow you are surprised that many players are asking "what car? you are still working on the ship!"?
Bye! And still good luck with your games!
