The game was pretty vanilla when it came out, an early controversy was about Kari sneaking out and hiding that from the MC, might have been also a kiss?(forgot the details, you can still find remnants of that fight in the early pages)Well that was enough to get that entire storyline scraped pretty much, so its fair to say that the early fanbase was more vanilla leaning.
But with each update, new controversies and 'mistakes' that were walked 1 step back in a later patch, while at the same time moving 2 steps forward in the next update, it started leaning more on free sex/'dark content', the plot became more and more ridiculous, at this point you would have to be disingenuous to not see that as the bigger focus. Vanilla is what now, 1/3, 1/4 of the total content a girl has across all routes?
I am actually shocked he publicly acknowledged this happening because it was my impression he was feigning ignorance the last few controversies it happened.
People interested in the type of content throwing exorbitant amounts of money to realize their dream scenario(s) with the characters they like is nothing new in the genre, that doesn't make it less disappointing that games get shaped around them, if it was from the 0.1 catering to them and now they were paying for more, sure fair enough, but I don't think it was the case with this game. (Granted I haven't played since early on and only come back every other update just to read the thread, so I might have redacted info.)