Well, choices in a lot of AVNs I've played are usually meaningless anyway, or there's just one right path with all the juicy stuff because it's too time consuming to make a lot of branches of content. I skipped all that nonsense because I'm a solo dev, and from the beginning I knew I'd rather finish my novel than it being in development limbo for years if I had insisted in making my first project a complex story with choices, sandbox or whatever.
It's just like a comic or a book. Give it a try some day if you get the urge for some well-written incest. You might not regret it