Also you mentioned that it's the reclaiming element that is likely to ruin the game for more vanilla content, could you go into that a bit more
Sure. The % of people that play netorase games for Husband X Wife bonding/contet should be around the same % of olympic athleticism fans that play FIFA games because you have to run a lot during a football game.
It's quite simply antithetical to its presented nature. After the relationship between husband X wife has been established, interrupting the progression of the netorase plot to return to the bonding between husband x wife, after it has already been established that they truly love each other, makes absolutely no sense. It's like Frodo & CO from LotR suddenly turning back and returning to the Shire for a feast to reaffirm how strong their friendship is, after they've already gone half the way to Mount Doom.
I fail to see the point of this back and forth to reaffirm something that has already been established... and, although I'm interested in the story progression of the latest patch, I believe its placement was terrible.
For any of this to make sense, Saxxonado should go back to the beggining of the story and remove the abundant monologues where the husband made it very clear that what he trully desires is to watch his wife losing herself in pleasure from having sex with other men. Because it makes no sense for someone to want that and then go towards a "strong", "reclaiming" path. The aspect of cuckoldry where the husband wants to reclaim is to stroke a narcisistic feeling of "I'm superior, I'm better than these other men! Only I can truly satisfy her!"... which is athithetical to what the husband wants, as he clearly said he wants to see his wife being pleased by other men.
If the husband performs worse than the man she just slept with, there will be no reclaiming, as those are, again, antithetical. For reclaiming to be possible the husband has to perform better than those his wife slept with. And no, there's no such thing as "But sex with the husband will always be better because she loves him!", as this, again, is anthithetical to the concept of netorase. Netorase starts from the point that love and pleasurable sex can come from different sources.
...And yet, even following the "strong"/"dominant" path, the husband still makes it very clear that what he trully wants is to see Ammie having more pleasure from sex with the other men.
As it is, the original direction of the story makes no sense for how much it conflicts with what was presented as the husband's wants and the direction the story is taking.
From my perspective, the pointless back and forth between netorase and lovey-dovey husband X wife content (that is wholly anthitetical to a mainly netorase game) is being shoehorned in to appease the crowd that is only in for the superb art, and doesn't really like the concept of netorase. Likely the same people that go "Is NTR avoidable?" in every single NTR game posted here, demonstrating that they are fully willing to pester games focused on things they don't like, searching for things they do like. And they've been trying, really hard at that, to change the direction of the game-- and they seem to be succeeding.
If anything, I believe Saxxonado should stop listening to everyone and fullfill their artistic vision, be it making the game actually focused on Netorase, or turning it into fully vanilla with specs of netorase teasing. It doesn't matter. It's just that this back and forth is trully annoying, as the game seems to change direction every now and then. It makes no sense for a game that delivered that hot business trip netorase scene to now come with this mushy, wishy-washy "reaffirming their feelings". It makes no sense from a pacing/progression standpoint.