Regarding the whole softcore fantasy porn aspect - it'd be one thing were it done well, but it's extremely... tame and half-assed?

Bodies devoid of physics (genitals frozen in stasis, breasts that defy gravity...) with models that warp in ugly ways during certain animations, scenes that seem cut short (Lae'zel's, Minthara's alternate one from EA which is removed entirely) are either non-existent (while implied) or pointlessly "artsy" (like the drow twins), characters sharing the same body type (Gale/Wyll/Astarion, Minthara/Shadowheart)... To bank on it so heavily during advertisement and fall behind not just Witcher/Cyberpunk, but Andromeda of all things is a hell of an, erm, achievement - and this is coming from someone who's gotten fed up with romances in games thanks to Bioware and whose interest in the subject is mostly morbid curiosity as to how far they were willing to push the envelope (apparently, you can run around naked which nobody react to is how far. Yay).

Speaking of Bioware, I am replaying NWN 1 now, and, honestly, Larian aren't even all that new regarding the intensity of your character being hit on. Playing as a high charisma male/female character results in women/men offering one-night stands (which don't happen for plot reasons, but the... mood is still there). Meanwhile BG1 had a sireen who could murder-kiss you (regardless of gender), and BG2 had that one drow lady during the Underdark chapter. So they are treading the well-walked roads here but are doing it worse, making the game disappoint in ways one wouldn't think it could.

And as for the game itself - while I was genuinely impressed by the area design and the exploration, I would argue that the rest is a step backwards from Larian's previous two titles. Combat, despite the supposedly huge array of spells and powers, feels very limiting, the writing is hit or miss and this time it doesn't have the benefit of being in a non-serious setting (not to mention all the plot holes and the narrator being a nuisance more than a needed storytelling tool), and it feels like there is very little to do save for the main story unless it's companion content, which I have gated myself out of the most of by refusing to have anyone past the 4-man party limit around (due to how awkward it feels to swap people and how nonsensical the interactions and comments become).

All the 10/10s are most certainly unwarranted, especially with the currently blatantly unfinished state that the game is in. I know the game journalists are basically the epitome of incompetence, but the degree to which they'll praise something with obvious glaring issues without so much of an ounce of objective criticism is baffling, honestly. It's definitely not a bland show of mediocrity that Starfield is, far from it, and has the potential of becoming Larian's finest title, but definitely not in this state. The foundation is there, but the woodwork is shoddy. And given gow AAA/AA RPGs are a genre that's dead for almost a decade now, I don't think it'd really affect much. More hardcore players are turned off by the lack of difficulty and how choices can be meaningless, the more casual ones complain the game's too hard, the more close-minded fans of the originals are long gone by now, and the less close-minded ones are upset by what the game could have been but ended up not being.

I guess all who remain are indeed the bothered redditors and the like, who'll probably switch over to Dreadwolf when it comes out some day if it turns out to have more "desirable" romance options. Unfortunate.