It does seem that way, yes.Is it just me, or was the developer pressured to change the game? It was very clear that something would happen between the two couples, that they would play a game (which I believe would be between the four of them), but it was clearly changed in this final version. Was it another threat from a certain group?
What a shitty ending.
I am not sure though, but the writing for this game isn't the best and when the creators themselves say "it's a well written story" without knowing it's very much not well written. Doesn't really fill me with confidence in their story telling, it's just a skip to good stuff for me at this point.
I do not think this game is heading for a good direction with splitting the MC and FMC apart like this. I did skip the whole reason for the boat thing so I dunno why he even went there in the first place. I'm sure it made no sense anyway.