That's why I believe patreon ruined the game. The dev's should not get influenced and pressure by supporters. He should make his game the way he like it and see it. Otherwise one day he might quit due to a lot of demands
To be honest the creator was already showing signs that he wanted to do this anyways. The original game while In my opinion was the superior version was just too much for him to maintain. there was a mountain of bugs he could never squash no matter how hard he tried, and as the game went on he shown that he had desires to change the original game he made.
Look at what he did to Laura, and Jack for example.
Originally Laura was an independent woman who had a job at the pharmacy, and the only dependence she had was living with her mother, sister, and step father who had a shota fetish. However later on in the game her character was changed completely to the point where she her fetish has completely taken her over to the point where she is just a shut in with o independence whatsoever.
then there was Jack. the guy originally was a man who worked with the mob in secret and wouldn't think twice about pulling the trigger on you if you crossed him, however at the end of the day he still loved his kids and would do whatever it took to take care of them. However as of update 2.1 his character changed to the point where he didn't even care for his kids, and if one of them crossed him he had no problem beating and abusing them. I mean in a previous update when Sarah tried to seduce him for money (if you choose the Sarah path over the shasha one) when he jumped into the shower to masturbate to his daughter the moment he got off he felt massive regret for even thinking it. However in the latest build of that game he had no problem attempting to rape her while she was sleep and then when the Mike busts him takes a picture to blackmail him.
then there was the adding of the newest character Alex which came from the 2.1 build of the last game. she was introduced to be part of the group of friends Mike had when originally it was Morgan Markus and Rachel however in this case rachel was never shown as part of this group or even mentioned by her. this right here was massive hint that he wanted to replace who was originally best friends with the main male in this game.
So to be completely honest I honestly think he just made that poll with the promise of a revamp being made in the exchange of it being bug free as an excuse to just start the entire game over because he wanted to change the entire story around rather than fix the work he had started and to be honest personally something like this would have been good if the game had just been starting however as many pointed out this update happened when the game was nearly finished.
He had already made content for mostly all the girls in the game (lucy was the exception), and while there were loose ends to tie up he could have focused on finishing the game main story, as well as the few girls left out, then tied up said ends in later releases. but no he went down this route and while i will stick with the game since like quite a few people I have grown attached to it and played it since it first came out this change really disappointed me.