The author of EG is making a strong move towards alternative paths and replayability - not in the traditional, branching story way, but by offering alternative scenes and NPCs to pursue. Nor is it a choice between sharing and no sharing - for the most part, it's scenarios that come around every few chapters where you choose one or the other. Laundromat scene vs post office scene. Young streamer cuckquean vs GILF. During the holiday trip, you can meet a threesome partner girl, or share your wife with an admirer from back in the city. I'm always bothered I can't play them all in one go, but at least it's not the kind of game that locks you to a route early on. Some of the choices I didn't even hesitate, the ones that I did are pretty self-contained.
For people who don't like "non-linear choices" like me (meaning, a choice made earlier having unsuspected consequences later that you may not like) bear in mind that telling your wife, after she tells you of her adventure with two older men, you might be into older women will lead to her, later, daring you to seduce a GILF at the water park; the alternative being her daring you to hook up with a fucking hot streamer that you won't even meet, unless you rejected the older women suggestion earlier. Both NPCs will have more scenes later but you'll only ever meet one of them.