I know you're well aware of the subjectivity of your opinion, but I want to defend the dev a bit here and say that there is an *entire* genre of Visual Novel games called Kinetic Novels that just don't have any choices at all, and they're preeetty popular - it's more of a target audience thing imo, you don't like it, that's fine, but I don't think the lack of choices compromise this game at all.
Once again, not trying to stir up something, just defending the dev a bit here. I think their format is totally reasonable >.<