i have a teory...
i think the developer didn't change yui story because of patreon, i think he did for convenience. i remember reading that her story was made for keeping the player "entertained" while the main quest was "paused", maybe he didn't think that yui would be so popular and don't come up with an idea to make ako and yui having an "happy ending" together with the player (or other "dev in trouble" shenanigans) or (on account that she had the most tragic story by being a piece of meat for her family, treated like a slave) he simply doesn't like her at all.
Well.... sorta? Yui's original rework wasn't because of the platform censorship or even the dev themselves. It was caused by the
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and it predates all this drama by almost a year. However, the story we have now was very much caused by the censorship as you can see
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. Whatever we were supposed to get was scrapped for what we have now.
I know other people are, but I'm not personally all that bothered by it. I was here when people originally complained about Yui's situation. And at the time, nobody knew if her whole story would be changed. Or if you would just get options to actually help and do something. So I've long been prepared for either outcome.
Although I am curious about two things. What was the dev's original vision of Yui's story. And what was the rework for the players supposed to look like

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