It wasn't intended to be quite that literal. It was a joke about a guy reading things into a series of ink blots.
Originally Posted by Darth_Trethon
because you as well as everyone else here knows that's a lie.
"You're the one who keeps showing me the dirty pictures!"
Just because you see 'obvious' meanings in things doesn't mean that everyone else necessarily does, or that they are intended.
The tracking of affinity and affection between the main characters is IMO a relatively minor feature, which should improve character development and replayability. Romance was said to be one possibility, after some kind of choice, if the characters liked each other enough. It was never in and of itself a major feature of the game. There is no grand conspiracy to trick people looking for RPGs focused on romance into buying D:OS. If Larian thought there was a huge market for that, they would explicitly promote romance as a feature and actually bring it up without having to be asked, not release artwork featuring red lipstick and have the characters holding hands (explicitly stating that that is not romantic) as some kind of subliminal trick.
