It kind of feels like the introduction of new characters is less about the narrative tension/conflict and more just about ensuring more lewd scenes for different tastes. Let's have her screw a: ugly/fat/dirty/homeless/animal/interracial/relative/stranger/young/old person etc. just to tick most of the boxes this genre of game typically has and to try to satisfy as many fetishes as possible. I'm not really expecting any of the conflicts/people she sleeps with to come to any sort of actual resolution besides 'keep having sex and cheating, eventually get a divorce, become a whore'.
I agree, it's bad/lazy writing. Especially the Martin stuff. It's a particularly egregious transgression (probably the most damaging to their relationship given what we were told previously and the history) but nothing seems to reflect that. It's treated with the same importance as if it was a random stranger when the actual impact should be huge. In reality, the relationship would be too far gone to salvage at that point but like you said it's not a big deal anymore! Barely worth mentioning! It can only end like the aforementioned 'resolutions' that are expected. Keep having sex and cheat, eventually divorce, become whore. The routes seem to all adhere to that structure regardless of which actual route you are on. There doesn't seem to be a 'husband' route anymore at this point and the one where she seems to develop actual feelings and affection for one of the guys will likely come to the same finale as the cheating/cuck routes. Namely: cheat, divorce, whore. The dev has kind of written himself into a corner and has no 'logical' way to write himself out of it without doing more 180's in terms of characters/logic/tone. Also the possibility of a 'happy couple' ending of any sort seems unlikely given you are nudged (very forcefully) in certain directions in order to advance the story. Perhaps I'm the only one but I prefer if there were some balance in the routes/endings. If on one end she cheats and has no remorse and happily leaves the husband, conversely, there should be the possibility that her life goes to shit and she hits rock bottom as a result of her choices or she realizes how badly she messed up and goes grovelling back to the husband (whether she is forgiven or not I don't know, that would be up to the player). Of course this kind of balance and variety will be hard to achieve now without either doing more 180's or retconning previous chapters since the original premise of an 'adventurous couple looking for new experiences and spice together' seems to have been abandoned a while ago.
