Personally I wouldn't be super stoked for a cliffhanger ending (beggars can't be choosers), but to me it seems the most likely scenario, drama-wise. I'd rather the whole 'Sterling v. Hunter trial' to be one chapter instead. I haven't played in a bit, or seen the not-leaked-yet teasers, but if updates are gonna be as big as this upcoming one, leaving off on a cliffhanger for 9ish months is gonna be rough. It'll be a gamble at least, it might keep some people fiending for more but there's also gonna be people that are not down with that, and those people tend to be the most vocal. I might be forgetting some stuff, or maybe it's bias since we're following Sterling's POV but it seems like anyone in the house with 2 brain cells could figure out that Hunter is shady as fuck.
Since I haven't played in a while I'm hoping someone could educate/give me a refresher on a few things; is Hunter canonically Sterling's grandfather? Like is it proven? Didn't they find an email or video or something where Drew was fucking Sterling's dad on a regular basis? Isn't there a diary or whatever about Keira/Nora's encounters with Drew/Hunter? Didn't Tiff (the maid girl) find a bag of weird ass drugs in Hunter's room? Didn't Hunter approach Lucia and Tiff for some shady shit? What's in the safe again? Did Sterling only check for cameras once? Didn't Kevin have surveilance equipment in the house too? Isn't Sterling getting drugged with like HGH as well as everyone else?
Then again, a lot of this is probably covered in the upcoming update. Hunter/Drew's gonna have to pull off a whole lot of fuckery to make it seem like Sterling's been the bad guy the whole time.