Then he needs to change what is happening in game or resolve that relation in game. I am pretty sure that loads of people that have just played day one to seven in game will be expecting Azel and MC to end up in a sexual relation and not without reason. If I had not read forum and Patreon I would also be 99.9% sure they would end up in bed together. What a dev, movie director, writer of a book says outside of the work he produces should never be needed to understand what happens in that work or even worse directly contradict that.
As long as that does not change this discussion will never go away and those asking for it have a good argument, since they base their request and expectation on the game that is there and not an outside remark. Now like I said before, I have no problem if he wants to go non sexual with Azel, but then her buildup and scenes do need to change and that resolution that they will not go sexual will have to be in the game itself after their buildup in the first 7 days and hopefully make sense after that.
Not outside of it while the game hints strongly at the opposite at the moment.
Lady Lydia fair enough that last remark. I think I made the same remark in a different way when said that some people might feel that the last scene brought in a bit too much of the negative over the top drama in the game and as such messes a bit with the overall feel good feeling the game gives off with decent people doing their best even if they have problems.