You might be right. But:Want the real reason? Easier money.
What's now called Season one was rushed to an end that included only 1 final, regardless of path (unless one counts the bad ending with max).
They could have produced another couple/handful of updates, varied based on the paths and wrap it up, but there wasn't that much left to explore before it became redundant. (EDIT: once Sue has become a proper bimbo, there are only so many times one can watch her fuck Randall/some random dude with no story progression)
Problem is, what to do afterwards? Might not have been the most successfull AVN around, but it was successfull enough.
Why having to create a new story, with new characters when you can just make a "sequel"?
How do you make a sequel out of content that wasn't enough to sustain S1 for a longer period of time? You create a soft reset.
1. They lost a paying customer. (I was wise enough not to pay for anything in season 2.)
I am probably not alone.
2. They had to make the whole crap in season 2 regardless. It can't be really more difficult to make it appealing. For Pete's sake: ask an AI to write a story It can't be worse.
That isn't a soft reboot, because there was no Sue
3. Why not do the bimbofication route slowly?
What they are actually supposed to do anyway.
They have done it now in the 5th update with the fingernails. If you do it slowly - it gets you like 30 updates easily
Lipstick here, piercing there, tattoo here and so on.
We will probably never know.
Well, I am just pissed that they wasted 4 updates.