Having worked with the dev over the last few months on the editorial side, I can say that both of the following are true:
1. I was (and am) firmly in the camp that the game was great as is and didn't need a visual remake.
2. I can fully understand why he'd want to do it anyway.
I haven't played (or edited) the remake yet, so I have no idea if the new version is better or worse, and I personally don't have any visceral objection to AI usage in games so I'm at least curious about how those came out.
Like many devs, I know this one has been learning as he goes ... he started the game with little or no experience with Daz or Renpy and just wanted to tell a story. Naturally, skills and workflows evolve and improve over time and as it becomes easier to see the flaws and mistakes you made at the beginning, you feel compelled to "correct" them. That's all he's doing.
As a creative professional (which I have been), I get it. As a marketer (which I am), I also understand the risk (and the reaction, which was foreseeable). Hell, I probably talked him out of one or two other changes he'd wanted to make along the way lol.
Better... worse... play it... or don't ... at the end of the day, it's just a guy trying to make better porn. *shrug*