If the game is "descending" into cuckoldry, I suppose the way that characters and the couple's relationship were framed at the beginning was not so much along those lines. There could have been a chance to make a stag path, if that had been what the author wanted. That's why I call it a missed opportunity - some will surely enjoy it as it is, but I'd really like to play a game along those lines, with undercover agents and missions that can be advenced through ntr/s, but framed closer to Deliverance, where the MMC and FMC can choose to user her seduction to advance their goals, because it's kinky and degrading, and socially frowned upon, but they're never forced there.
If LTI offers choices that translate as skipping content, maybe it would have been easy to shape alternative text that made scenes play out as the couple's own games, so you didn't have to skip them altogether. Even the competition could be fun if it were 1) lighthearted and 2) the couple secretly schemed to ensure the MMC would be the father. I can't wrap my head around the idea of a loving couple deciding to actually risk pregnancy from another guy, given the option, it's not erotic, just silly, humiliating and the antithesis of romance (I understand from what some have written that the game's dynamic is that Lisa increasingly dominates the MC - just wish the author had wanted to pair that with an alternative route).
Absolutely agree with you. To be honest, I played through the cruise scenes the first time letting anyone fuck her and risking her being impregnated by anyone else, at the end of the day, I wanted to watch the content. What really bugged me though is that then once you are out of the cruise, there is a particular scene where you are travelling back and she says she is horny, you offer to fuck her and she says no and goes with the black guy, Saul. The text is sort of humiliating too, something along the lines of you having a smaller cock than his.
That really pissed me off.
I am a fan of pregnancy in games, and I didn't particularly enjoy not being the one impregnating her, but then it descending into the usual "bLaCk GuYs HaVe BiGgEr DiCkS! " is really annoying. I then replayed the cruise part but not letting others fuck her. She then still let chose Saul to fuck her, so I went even further back and stopped any sharing with Saul.
It is, as you say, a missed opportunity. If everything had played exactly the same but then, at the end of the cruise, you had a pop-up "who do you want the father to be" that could have catered to those that enjoy the extra humiliation of not being the father and to those that wanted to be the father anyway. Then slightly change that further humiliation scene to let you choose if Lisa goes with Saul or not and I would have no issues with the game at all.
I am still reading that VN, but I must confess that in my mind the main LI has become the sister, who I hope we can keep as a pet, and I am actually taking Lisa down the whore path, and I hope there's an ending where she leaves to be a whore (and in my head canon she will end up in the streets selling herself for peanuts) while you get to keep the sister as your pet, and father her children.