Yeah, I do share some of your concerns about multiple ways to fuck it up. Having one and only one opportunity to declare your love is an AVN trope that I hope this AVN avoids though. Taking to long
can make a partner think you aren't interested. But you usually at least get a window.
Hopefully there's additional opportunities in future episodes with higher thresholds that would allow a MC with just a few points from early on to make later declarations after "settling down" a bit more and not accumulating them further.
Btw, I think I edited my previous post after you responded. But I added this:
So I don't disagree with you that having the option blocked entirely isn't great.