As I said, I wasn't there, I just read they add those kind of features in old patches.
There was widespread community drama over the animations and a lot of jealousy over why certain characters got more or better kisses and animations than others.
It's like a pre-school where if the teacher rewards the kids with ice-cream, instead of everyone being happy they got ice cream, some kids complain that they didn't get their favourite flavour or that some other kid got more marshmallows in their bowl.
