It is sad that money can change someone so much. He started with a decent concept. If you can't handle social interaction,my suggestion would be don't setup a discord channel. Make your AVN put it out and continue with the avn or continue with your life. I know it was a unimaginable story and pure fantasy,but we are not looking for real life (i hope not). i might or might not have some kinks that i can't do in real life so i will try the wildest avn i can find just for the pure fantasy of it. Just to be clear i am not talking about sadistic things,just things people i socialize with are not open to. Wvm was a choice based avn with a little of everything. I think he let the avn control him instead of him controlling the avn. IT makes me sad to see it happen to anyone.
i think the single biggest mistake he made, and pretty much every game that has a BIG mistake is the same thing, is letting higher-tier sub ranking dictate what goes in to or is changed in a game
1) please use your own vision, it's always better (if the game would succeed anyway)
2) with all due respect, "normies" don't fucking know anything about what they really want
3) those people (high tier) aren't gonna stay there long term, and then your main base stuck with whatever frankenstein options your temporary big-bucks put on the line
Waifu Academy, Milfy City, Harem Hotel (briefly, redeemed), and WVM are some solid games that were big ticket in the day that suffered from this (i know there are others)
it's a good money milker for those who are not serious about their VNs and plan to eventually abandon them, but if you plan to go from A to Z and finish something ... man, DO NOT let your fanbase dictate the direction of your game (with due respect)
EDIT : example, if * i * were calling the shots on this game right now (in it's current state), i'd have PP Shauna betray the MC and steal all of his Top Waifus and fuck them silly, then become the secret dark-horse protagonist
I know Anti would be there with me, but i know for the integrity of the game and the majority of the fanbase, that would be a disaster (but better than no content at all <3 )