For everyone that's been having trouble with viewing the straight scenes, here's the relevant bit of the update post:
Basically, if you had already started week 3 before this update, as a straight player, you've locked yourself into viewing the bi gym scenes. The only way to fix this is to go back to an earlier save from day 8 or before to begin the week properly - the shower/breakfast/gym scenes will then play out correctly.
Is it working?
You're not supposed to see a new Sam scene as a gay player, it's bi/straight only. As a gay player you'll only see an MC solo shower scene.
You've probably encountered the same issue as the straight players by starting week 3 before day 16 started development, and now you're locked into bi gym scenes. If you go back to an earlier save from day 8 or before you'll be able to start week 3 properly and see the intended gay gym scene.
At this point in season 2 the main premise has kind of settled on "daily space academy life, but with aliens and psychokinetic magic". The shifter story has only recently been finished, relative to in-game time, so I assume the intent is to have a bit of a lull before introducing a new big plotline. But it doesn't help that almost the entire year was spent developing a 'filler' bi week 2, so the progression feels extra slow.
But now that week 3 is finally here, the minor plot threads should be getting picked up again. The dev schedules teased a continuation of the Dan/Lazarus storyline that will feature three new missions (iirc Lazarus, Aurora, and MAX will each get a scene), and there will also be an extended flashback of Cole's missing year that will finally reveal what happened with him and Bailey. Cousin Felix is also supposed to be arriving on the ship soon-ish, iirc, and he's likely to be a major love interest for the main character, so he will probably get a lot of focus and scenes.
I realise now that all of these plots are focusing almost exclusively on the male characters, but tbf these are all very popular characters who placed high on character polls (and their stories won the storyline polls too, iirc). Though I would imagine Cis will be showing up more this week, as an M/F alternative to Felix, so it won't be a total cockfest (probably).