As for AI art- well, maybe I'm projecting, but I like to think that Sierra would rather pay some human artist to do work for her, instead of getting Skynet to do the work for free. Sure, the art would be technically better, but at least this way someone can make a living for their work.
I don't think that's the concern at all, since there seems to be a lot of volunteerism going on with every aspect of the project
except art. Rather, AI art actually just isn't very good, not just because of its "style" but because she wants the art to actually match the details of the scenes. Plus, at least the art has a distinct style if it's all done by this one human artist.
Anyway, I don't even accept the premise that the current art is bad. It's good. There's just a limit to how good anything looks at that tiny window size. And that's another advantage - the artist can draw with that limitation in mind, while the AI has no concept of how to adjust for it.
The long and short of it is that Simon, as someone who is in relationship with enough women to fill up a football team,
You mean Fuckball team? No, it's not happening.
consider forcing any of said women to be exclusive with him to be super hypocritical.
I'm not sure he ever said that, but of course they are not exclusive with him regardless. They have the whole rest of the harem, too. That's enough partners for anyone. There is a difference between poly and open relationship, and they don't have the open relationship.
And there's no
forcing involved because most of the harem joins of their own free will, including all the succubi. (Gosh, but if you're scandalized that someone might voluntarily enter into an unequal relationship, don't look into BDSM lifestylers... or, you know, the whole Orgasmic Empire in-universe, built on master/slave relationships.) Anyway, it's a harem. Double standard is expected and in fact it's kind of the point. Yarra says she wants to build Simon a harem; Simon doesn't offer to build her one in return, because that'd be silly. Simon letting them have other partners at all is going above and beyond expectations. Crying about the hypocrisy is like crying that your sushi has rice in it.
Oh, but it is a trope subversion, someone will surely respond. Well, you still have to follow the trope some, or it's not even a subversion anymore.
you keep drawing parallels to irl human relationships (presumedly with sexual exclusiveness as a criteria for commitment), while other people see it as a succubus (fictional hypersexual creature) in a relationship akin to an open one (sexual exclusiveness is not a criteria for commitment)
Again, they have a poly relationship, but that does not imply openness. You can be poly and cheat; I have known this to end poly relationships IRL. And Simon is human, which means the succubi are all in a human relationship, and coming to understand human relationships is a significant part of Yarra's arc in particular.
