If I may put my two cents in on this. That is a shame. I am a patron have been since that glorious dealer demo. That was truly incredible when it first came out, I had noticed many people wanted more, shall we say, hardcore femdom than I but it looks like the creator has gone that route have to respect that. I did down grade my patron level as I recognised that direction and felt no point in being 'drowned out' so to speak. I know you acknowledge they are not exclusive, I came into this kink from MGQ so fully enjoy the femdom aspect of sex from that, which i felt dealer replicated really well.
In universe it appears Witches will employ sex to get what they want but that will depend on the character. Fully get that Alice and Herba are probably not geared towards that either, one not being a witch and interested in dominating her brother and the other is, 'retired' from that stuff. I hope we can some more like dealer who are more interested in draining the MC all the while humiliating him. I know this is an entirely selfish perspective but to be fair from the first game demo I thought that was the direction the game was travelling for sure. I think you could probably see my view point there? I personally disagree sex undermines a femdom dynamic but I get where you are coming from with it.
I guess I am included in that as well, still I enjoy what is already there, but definitely to a lesser extent than actual sex scenes but I do fully expect there will be some, by maybe 2024 xD.
This makes sense, most games do go for the trope of intercourse as the biggest reward at the end. What is further than that in progression with a porn game? It is a good point. I'd be happy for some characters to never happen sex scenes if it happens to be out of character, such as Alice. So long as some do have it, Dealer is clearly going to be one, here is wishing for her swift return. I mean we have not fought any witches yet despite that being the premise of the whole game (the demo is excluded).