Exactly this.
Not only did they get lost and forgot what they even wanted the 'story' to be about, they simply butchered it with all the ridiculous shit we've seen in this part. I'd really like to praise their writer for the effort they put into writing the script, not for its quality, but if you tell me that an idiot saving the insane slut who not only tried to kill him but his sister and her friends too is what an ending should look like, then I'm done with this and won't even try to argue with anyone defending the bad storytelling coz it's obviously pointless.
The funniest thing is, neither Arianna or any of those crazy whores, except for Maxine, had a legit reason to keep lying to him coz he already was their accomplice to the murder of the creepy
ex-cop by default, so why bother going to threats or even try killing him ?? I don't think the police, who's supposedly owned by Max's family and on their payroll, would believe an idiot like the MC instead of the Queen B slash miss congresswoman herself. Plus, there were 4 of them and only one of him, so without other witnesses or proof to back up his accusations, he shouldn't even bother threatening anyone with the cops. Again, what was the point of all those threats and disturbing things they did ?? Fuck knows that.
That aside, we didn't even find out why Lydia killed the creepy guy or what happened to Lucas' body. Did he come back to life, meet Heraldine, have sex and ride off with her on a unicorn into the sunset as a secret ending, or what ?? Considering how stupidly written the 'gruesome' murder was, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out he wasn't even dead and it was just a lie or some other asspull like that, but
Max's crazy dad being dead and the mysterious, almighty cult behind all the murders not even being shown or mentioned it was destroyed at the end of the game makes this shit of an 'ending' (all of them, actually) a bad joke not even the dev's laughing at, so I don't understand why it got the completed tag and how Inceton can pretend it's finished when there are so many plot holes and questions left unanswered.