It's obvious the ending was rushed, the Nate, Jenkins, and Cody/Cadence storylines got completely abandoned early on, there were 5 more perfectly sized spaces for more girls/women, and the other 5 clearly ended before they were meant to end, and the external walkthrough justified it by saying he worked on it for 4 years so he had to let it go which is bullshit, you don't have to finish a game in a certain amount of years.
I also felt like this game would work better as a linear visual novel rather than a sandbox, the sandbox offered nothing different and you had to do scenes in a certain order anyway, so dev time was wasted on that.