I agree with this. This is something that seems to crop up in html games a fair bit, and it wasn't as obvious in this one in some of the earlier updates, that nothing happens without the MC initiating it. Changing the home stuff to be gated behind Dick's Quests has only made it feel even more like that.Understandable, not exactly sure what would make it feel more fleshed out. Perhaps a new character is needed, been stuck with just the family and dick forever now. Maybe some of the characters actually being proactive, as it is now it mostly feels like Zara is the one initiating everything (I know she isn't, but that's how I feel). The fact that there's nothing going on when you study at school is a bit odd. The date action feels repetitive.
Again not exactly sure why, but if you for example take the game Small Town, the home just feels way more alive for some reason, stuff happens when you enter rooms and there are decisions to be made.
I always wonder with games that are on Patreon how much of that is because Patreon's rules regarding non-consensual content. Even taking that into consideration, it really seems like more NPCs could be more proactive than they are. I think that contributes to making the game feel grindy, when essentially the same content could feel like it has more of an organic flow if NPCs are made to instigate more, both sexually and not.
I even managed to grind up family corruption without advancing Dick's quests, and you can (or could an update or two ago), still get the sort of Free Use scenes doing chores, but given there's nothing really that builds up to that now, it felt like that wasn't intended. It was a stupidly grindy way to play, but I was on a mission!
Honestly, I think the gating of so much behind's Dick's Quests was a huge mistake. Completely the wrong direction.