the problem is - there is just too many "activities being apparently required for the main plot".
putting aside that those activities make little to no sense in that regard imo, it is already red flag of rookie dev having hard time putting it all together.
hopefully he will improve later, as for now there is just too many fake/no choices pointing to KN direction.
my opinion ofc, i know there are many players perfectly fine with similar gameplay
for example even those complains are almost exclusively related to unavoidable sex in the whorehouse (which is dumb scene surely), while unavoidable sunny (virgin chick) no one is mentioning (well, besides me) - because, ya know - whores-bad, virgins-good.