I'm sure that's likely what happened, and I don't disagree. Perhaps, my point was more that one side takes more responsibility for the failings depending on the path you take. That skews things a lot:
- MC takes the fault, blame, and even admits to it on the reconciliatory route.
- Allie takes the blame and doesn't deny it on the hate route.
As I never took the hate route, I had a very one-sided perspective based on what the MC said and admitted to. Whereas others that took only the Hate route, would have the opposite because of what was said there. And neither really reconciles fully. Sure they were both at fault, but each takes the blame very differently. Just makes it a bit more confusing to discuss as now you have to disclaim a perspective based on what route was taken.
I think that was part of what led to some of the early heated exchanges because we were looking at it from very different story angles.