This, Any sandbox with a large area and no hint system can become a guessing game. Sometimes you need to be in a certain places at a certain time and the dialogue won't tell you.
Most of the time. It's poorly done, poorly implemented, and when non artist uses it they tend to overlook flaws in results. Taffy Tales dev used it to replicate his own style to varying results.
It depends
Someone dropping a one time release on steam, sure paywall the whole thing.
Expecting me to pay monthly for the CORE game elements no way, sooner or latter that will add up and evens surpass a regular game made by a studio. Leave that to extra patreon only scenes not core things...
In the same ball park? Sure but not the same thing. It's like how wanting footjob and smelling/licking feet would still go under the foot fetish umbrella even if someone could be into one and disgusted by the other. NTR usually is about stealing or having someone stolen from you usually under...