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The start making a lot of them awfully early in the story, then. And there are several points — one extended stretch during which Anne is having a ton of sex and Tony is either having none (with Anne, at least, and there's nothing he can do to convince her otherwise because she's always too tired from whoever she was banging during the day) or getting pity HJs, and several others (mostly, but not exclusively, on vacations) during which Tony's choices are 1) let her go do the things she clearly wants to do even though he fairly obviously doesn't want her to do them, or 2) make her so angry at him by insisting that it can damage, or even end, the relationship — that, when I started pointing them out mid-revamp #1, the dev expressed tacit agreement right here in this very thread.Obviously if they make the 'wrong' choices they still split up.
So no, I don't think a happy fetish laden ending was ever the obvious way this game was constructed, because Anne learned to angrily resent her husband's attempts to control her, and because Tony is a big lying cheater who never learns his lesson. There's no question it could have been one of several possible outcomes, but both Tony and Anne have to deliberately route around a huge percentage of the sexual content, which seems like a really wasteful way to write, render, and code a game.
That said, that was back in the original and in revamp #1. The only significant changes so far are that 1) we're railroaded into Eric because Dre isn't (yet?) an alternative...and it turns out that Eric's been sleep raping his (half?/step?) sister all along; 2) January exists, at least visually, but isn't yet an alternative way to end the Nicole storyline; 3) Tony has a third round of sex with Francesca rather than someone else; and 4) Anne expresses an emotional attachment to one of her lovers long, long before she does to either Mike, Dre, or Martin (the latter two of whom may not even exist in version three, or at least not in the same way...though I think one would have to be pretty naïve not to imagine at least Martin isn't going to wreak some sort of havoc).
Again, only he knows where revamp #2 is going to go. But Anne already losing control, plus the appearance of 1+2 in tandem this early in the story w/r/t Micah (so soon after receiving oral from Ryan made her feel too guilty to reciprocate), makes me think the same general template remains in place.