While I personally look more actively for the gay options cause my bi swing tilts towards dudes more often than not, I do like to check every choice and the repercussions they may have down the road for both thoroughness and to get a clearer picture of both the plot and the character's personalities.
For instance! Kenna. She's cordial when you're in her good side but a single choice regarding preference showed the MC a rather spiteful and dramatic side of her that we didn't know about (choices have consequences, who would've thought).
And Scarlet on the other hand is really chill even if we don't pick her. Kenna 0, Scarlet 1 baby.
I do wanna say though that I agree in that the MC may have a bit too much power. Don't get me wrong, the choices having meaningful consequences keeps one engaged and it make for a more fun and dynamic story! It's great to feel like you have the power to meaningfully alter the results.
But branching points having too much weight to them is something that's gonna make the production go twice as slow to account for them.
So far we haaaaaaave... Carter & Scarlet's potential break-up (can we have carter pls, we'll kiss his booboos away (this is more of a subplot and it's fine)) and 2 potential contestants leaving (now you have 2 timelines to keep track of).
And it's only episode 3 :/
(I actually didn't know we couldn't check the third floor on episode 3 if we hadn't gone to talk to Carter in episode 2, that's cool

... but it also has a lot of weight to it XD)
And while I don't think the gay/straight/bi content balance is broken by any means (I was pretty happy with my options and I found the Jackie and Bo challenge path fun for the bi vibes (Matt, my dude, get a grip and suck our dick)), while typing and reading the comments I did remember that the patreon version exists and has extra scenes. As a disclaimer I have not played that version so I don't know how many or diverse options are opened to the player, but it did come to my attention that one can't quite get the "full experience" from the regular game and thus unless you know they have played it, a "there's too few scenes of x content" complaint really only has 3/4ths of the weight it would otherwise have. Maybe those scenes make up a world of difference, maybe they don't, but you can't quite take those at face value as is.
I look forward to episode 4 \o/