I mean, not really, Asuna was just "surface" written to seem like her character self, if you had the option to see her alone time you COULD see Fujino had already warped her outside her canon-self because he NEEDED to do so for it to work (Lying to Kirito about sex and being unsatisfied but swallowing it to act like nothing was wrong before Kirito, considering even remotely involving herself personally with a random they just met just because she felt sorry for him, etc), hell, NONE of the characters were even remotely like their canon selves from the get-go and only Kirito and Asuna vaguely were like it because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to write a semi-realistic NTR setting for them XD (Kazuto moving out of his perfectly okay and big Japanese style house to live in a shitty apartment while still an underage high-schooler and having no means to sustain himself is one of the biggest but most overlooked plot-holes in this game after all because in comparison to other things nobody cares about that

Suguha being an angry tsundere at the beginning of part 1 was also horrendously wrong but nobody gave a shit about Sugu back then so nobody really complained, especially because it involved her being mean to Kirito lol)
Also, funnily enough, the whole "it's not real if it's in VR" thing shouldn't apply only to Asuna but to ALL the Aincrad survivors, Liz included, extra-hard, for obvious reasons, yeah, but it also needed a game where openly sexual capacities and services only fit for a dark NTR game's red light district to exist in the first place, and none of those would ever realistically or legally be able to exist in SAO's universe to begin with, even if people as unrealistically resourceful as the 'Council' came together for it, they would have everyone from the government to the United Nations shutting their ass in seconds because it would be literally beyond illegal for countless reasons, one of the biggest ones being the inability to regulate minors from logging into said game, which would become a national and even international scandal JUST from the publicly known sexual aspects, let alone the red going on in the underground street
At the end of the day, not a single thing in this game from the beginning is honestly realistic at all, ESPECIALLY if you know SAO to any basic level (And even more if you're more than just an anime-only), but let's face it, nobody who came into this game and stayed around really cares about the realism of it by this point :3