while i generally agree with you, i think its easy to miss these same criticisms in Caribdis' work, OIAL doesnt treat all girls equally in my opinion when it comes to story but its not enough to make me dislike the game at all. if we are talking about writing the overarching story that has really motivated me to play a game 10+ times i need to be a Stan for Dr Pinkcake. sure his writing was pretty dark in Acting Lessons, Being a DIK is such a well constructed "choices really matter" visual novel" ive played through. sometimes just for the writing of the characters and story that I just skip the lewd scenes sometimes to get to the story permutations.
that being said, we are "arguing" about 2 of the best creators in the adult game space so really these are first world problems