Urta's main problem is that she's Fen's super special OC. I think she literally was his fursona. I'm not fucking joking by the way. The problem of the devs having their characters take the spotlight was literally planted way back in the very first game. It just wasn't as apparent as it was in CoC II, but it was there.
I think it was mostly staved off from Fen and everyone's inexperience, it made them more susceptible to suggestions and criticism and more willing to compromise and back down if enough people pressured them. You can tell this because when they started working on TiTs, this mentality was still in the early versions of the game, and you can see it in the older planets and characters.
Then there was a paradigm shift. I'm not too sure when it happened, as I haven't followed the history of TiTs as closely as I do CoC.
I do know that like the issues with Urta, there's hints of what was to come even back in CoC I. You guys know Marble was originally going to kill herself if you became immune to her milk and had a low affection score? You were even suppose to run into her rotting corpse in the Lake.
The debacle about removing Izma's cock. The Helspawn saga. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch more...
Christ can you imagine if that actually went through Kiyokos rep would never recover from it hell half the people here don't even release her from the amulet and i can't blame them for it but if that scene was added nobody would even pick the amulet
If what Bubs wanted to do to Kiyoko had come to pass, I probably would've just walked and never touched CoC2 again, honestly. Don't you dare touch her. She did nothing wrong. It's all Keros' fault her daughter turned out the way she did. Even the part where she nearly drove Kinu mad by lying about her studies- that's just a bad hallucination she had from being cooped up in the ball for centuries. Totally not me coping. Nope. Now if you excuse me, I'll be with my asocial shut in fox wife.