That's not my point.
So you are saying You purposely Punish players by Forcing them to go through a longer boring Grind, because incest is taboo?
It's good if you want to make those routes lengthy / more "realistic". But doing that by having more Building ups, more Conflicts, more Climax (aka more scenes
)
NOT by forcing players to Grind / Repeat the Same scene arbitrary times.
What you achieved is not only added downtime, but pull players out of the immersion, force them to remember it's just some game mechanics (and not a fun one at that).
What good about the detective campaign is the whole thing doesn't break the immersion / momentum. Even when it's kinda short.
"Realism" in games are to serve the purpose of "immersion", it should not become obstructs of entertainment - that's why we value "quality of life" features so high.
People play games for "Fun" and in this case, For "Porn", not to deal with "real life stuff" like buying condom, finding a date, finding a place, dealing with the aftermath, worry about diseases, etc.
I get it might due to scale limitation that you ain't able to fill in as much, but The whole mindset of "Necessarily Evil" with poor mechanics is not proper.