When the options extended were to stay monogamous with her or open relationship, several people (me included) asked for a straight "break up" option. People didn't really ask for the "loyal" option to be removed however.
Only later Mr Dots explained that the open relationship with Nicole would come down to the MC sticking his dick in everything that moves and Nicole getting off on watching/hearing about it.
At first introduction the idea sounded "NTR adjacent", specially because Mr Dots choose Georgina to bring it up.
So yeah what happened was, people didn't want their GF fucking other people, most of us didn't want to remain loyal to her and didn't want to straight up cheat either... a break up option was needed.
The removal of "loyal" was something Mr Dots did all on his own...
And i understand why... since in the game as currently constructed it's impossible not to get involved with the sister and cousin, loyal path would require a full rework of that.
A loyal path would also involve a whole lot of skipping the story of secondary characters like Ashley (primary in my heart
).
Not really a fan of Nicole to be honest, i understand that this was suppoused to be a long relationship and by the point the game starts she's worried about practical shit like money, rent and job opportunities.
But seeing her less than passionate attitude towards the MC was kinda of a turn off.