Seems you don't understand what type of game this is, the dating thing is just something used to tell a story. These are characters not real people, the story is told to express things that some people could relate to at that age being LGBT (or not I guess), this isn't really a dating sim at all, that is just used as a plot device to push the story and character route depending on who you choose further, it's more friendship than anything else because nothing is explicitly sexual whatsoever and I guess is more about discovery of oneself and the previously mentioned friendships and overcoming hardships that's it. So I feel your the weird one if you don't get it, I mean choosing where they want to go to highschool is literally something in the story, which shows growing up and moving forward and changing, why are you focusing on the dating? the stuff shown is literally middle school level stuff and a lot of people have connected with this game because they are LGBT.