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Yeah, I get that. It's just it seemed a little forced. Like, the detail of the threesomes before being revealed of a cheating situation added nothing to the fact that he cheated on her. The backstory should've been just that, he cheated on her.I don't see it as retroactively changing her past, rather that her (and Ian's) background is gradually revealed as we move forward with the story. Even though they're the protagonists, there's a lot we don't know about them. I think that makes sense particularly when it comes to their previous relationships; for obvious reasons they don't want to dwell on the details, so we don't get to know everything even if we've got access to their inner monologue.
Still it's more present for Lena because both Axel and Cherry are still around. I don't think we know any details about Ian's breakup: who Gillian cheated with; how it happened; or how Ian found out. Maybe it won't be relevant and we'll never learn about it, but I could also see it becoming a topic later on (particularly if he experiences something similar again).
In a way the details about their strained relationships with their parents was similar; it's a personal topic, and seemingly not something they are content to talk about with anyone — so we didn't learn the details until Ian and Lena had gotten to know each other better after several chapters.
I found adding details out of the blue, like Ivy saying "oh yeah, we made out all the time" or "we did this all the time" and the whole "yeah, I had a bunch of threesomes with him", doesn't really expand on the character. If there was a need to show Lena was interested in those types of stuff, there could've been another context without just saying she had already done it. Like telling Holly or Ian or Ivy "I'm actually interested in trying things with other girls".
It seems the only reason the whole Cherry threesome thing was added was to give a justification why Lena won't accept a threesome or other type of situation in the future, because the thing that made her hate Axel was the fact he was already fucking Cherry before the threesome (exactly Ian's situation).