I agree Eva's games fall into the trap of following a strict "release cycle" development plan that often loses track of what would work best in terms of a full-fledged product. But that's pretty much the only thing I agree with, everything else reads like an extremely shallow read of most characters and mismatched expectations of what you think the story should be and what it is actually trying to be.Lets see: A set of antagonists that aren't all that thrilling and bland. You have Seymour, who wants to control Lena and make her a sex slave. How is that interesting? You have Axel, who is also obsessed with Lena and can't take a fucking hint and is apparently involved every fucking where. Do we really need Axel to be at a gay bar next? Jeremy is just a BBC kink and has no depth to him at all whatsoeer. Stan is... Stan. And yet the revolving drama each chapter is: Will Lena be able to afford anything while slutting it up or not? Will Ian not get cucked and become the writer he wants to be? Will Stan die in a fiery crash and be replaced?
And sure, I'm bitter and jaded as fuck about Ivy-Ian, yet the writer in me screams 'Eva could do better'. Less kink/fetish crap, more character building. Make Jeremy a decent guy instead of being the Tyrone-lite and wanna be player. Add some depth and delve into characters and their relationships such as Jeremy and Louise and have Lena try to mediate that rathr than gloss over it and reward Jeremy over and over again without little to no punishment. Not to mention Lena more or less being able to fuck around while still being into Ian and have no punishment to speak of but if Ian does it's grounds for murder. Expand on Perry's or Emma's or Cherry's or whoevers passions and interests.
So for me, yeah the story is below average and isn't interesting and lack creative 'villains'.
Also I'm just confused why you are compaining about the game's story under the argument that "Eva can do better", she made ORS, which you are currently ranking as "below average writing" in a porn game forum, and GGGB which, in relative terms, is much more riddled with stereotypes and characters that are bland representations of generic fetishes. It just sounds way more that your taste doesn't mesh well with Eva's writing than it "failing to live up to its potential".
Ultimately Eva's games are kinda like a season of a 90's sitcom you kinda liked, the characters are there to fulfill very clearly defined roles while still having some charm of their own and the story is pretty much slice of life. It is a comfortable and fun thing that works well as long as you're not looking to be challenged by it.