I've managed to abstain myself from the game since version 0.6. Now it's approaching version 1.0. Just a little longer (maybe a few months or something); I just wanna wait for those sweet domination scenes to be finished being added in, and then I'm gonna play the fuck out of this game. All of it. Every single route. I'm even gonna delete my old saves and start over. It's gonna be great.
Also, you've probably already realized this
Yeehaw Games, but since it seems like there's a large vocal section of the populace that "really really neeeeeeeddddd" a male protagonist, I just want to remind you there are just as many people who want to play as a female protagonist. I feel bad, because no matter what you do you're going to get roasted for it. Like if it's a male protagonist you're roasted, if it's a female protagonist you're roasted, if you do both then development times can lengthen and you're roasted. Just do what you want to do, knowing that someone's going to be unhappy about it. Judging by your comment on patreon: "You aren’t alone in this

Don’t worry new game drafts will have male options for the main character", it seems like you guys are going for the "please everyone route", which doesn't generally work out well from what I've seen. My personal opinion would just be to put your foot in the sand with the protagonist's gender and say "this is what we're doing, half of you are going to be pissed and half of you are going to be really happy, but that's just how it's going to be". Again, you can go the options route if you want (pick your protagonist gender), but I haven't seen it executed well in an adult game yet. I feel like it's just too much stress on developers to update both protgaonists' routes consistently. An example of what I'm talking about is:
https://f95zone.to/threads/love-sex-second-base-v19-5-4-andrealphus.13488/, where the developers decided to add in a female protagonist and so far it's resulted in a severe lack of content in that route, and shared cg's between routes. And who knows how long it will take for that route to be playable. I don't know, hopefully this perspective helps you in some way.