It wasn't really meant to be that way. Fen wasn't even the person who wrote it (Quiet Bowser if I'm not mistaken. Let's check... Yep.). He just stood by the person who wrote it and took all the backlash himself. With the usual (at the time) Fen response.
That thing with the futa catgirl (Katherine?) on the other hand? I can't remember who wrote that. I undoubtedly have it recorded somewhere. But, given the amount of work the player has to go through to even make that happen at all (an approach I wholeheartedly approve of) it wasn't looked at too unfavorably.
Comparisons to Takahiro
Unlike Takahiro, Urta can be reduced into a whimpering crying mess (you scoundrel) several times throughout that relationship. The one of applicable here was for her being drunk (Bubs just wrote Takahiro threatening to whoop our tail and we acquiesce like a
"champion") and that relationship handled the worst of that way before you had to do her quest.
You could get her to minimize or aggravate her drinking after you started going steady. I can't remember if it's before or after the quest or even if it was Urta who eventually tosses you the keys to her house afterwards. Still, what's more important is that despite all of the shenanigans, the character was inarguably written for the player.
Compare all of that to Takahiro who was only written for Bubs to self insert. Probably in some vain attempt to see people compliment his OC and then getting flim flammed when everybody started hating both it and him.
Still Urta never really recovered community wise from the two really bad decisions centered around her:
- Urta Quest being ye olde Kinu quest, taking nearly an entire year of development time for something nobody wanted. And...
- Amily
Given that threesome "intro" never got changed? Justifiably so.
For better or worse, Fenoxo learned a lesson that day.
Edit attempt #2 (Man I suck at this):
Savin is very into cucking.