Completely agree... except on one thing. The Interim Domain, the previous ILS game, was in my opinion the perfect counterexample to what you've just said. A bit too many characters and places at the same time, which might explain a bit its lack of focus and why it was widely considered inferior to N&T (even if to me it was extremely enjoyable for many other reasons). Hopefully TOXICity learned from that lesson...
I believe, and again I'm now trying to step onto the shoes of the guy who originally quoted that, (so sorry if I'm misinterpreting things), is that the
"abusive couple" thing that might be used for Kallie's relation in future chapters according to the dev comment is also exactly the justification we had in chapter 3 for Laura scene, (and that's ignoring many other NTR scenes on countless AVNs). Hence the "this has already been done" meaning and the choice of the word "
trope".
I always believed that the word "
minority"
literally meant "
less than a half" (hence, anything <50%), and in this case, even figuratively, as it's way way less than that, but that could be just my mathematical background speaking.