Why worry about changing relationships in the game when there's already an XML that does exactly the same, Einstein? Or did you not know that?
As I said before, if you'd play the game from the start instead of being a lazy-ass and using a save where all the work is already done for you (spoon fed much?), you wouldn't bother needing to change the MC's name either. Once you pick it, it's yours to keep. Or start a new save under a different name if your too dumb to decide what to pick. It's not our fault you need hand-held.
In fairness, he wasn't talking about renaming the MC.
He was referring to the way some games give an option at the start to change the names / relationship of the women in the game.
As an example;
It'd show a picture of Julia with text along the lines of:
This is _________ (Leave blank for default 'Julia')
She is your ___________ (Leave blank for default 'Landlady')
It's a pretty obvious way of circumventing the anti-incest rules.
But, going back to what I said a few posts up, the key word being '
obvious'.
Patreon could decide that such an obvious way of circumventing anti-incest laws isn't worth the risk to them and start banning the devs that are using that trick.
I wouldn't try to guess the odds of that happening, but it's well within the realm of possibility.
So, the '3rd party patch' approach is safer (and no need to re-write the code) in the (unlikely?) event the above actually happens.