Hey Chellay,
I finally got a chance to play this new game today and I find the story pretty interesting. I get a bit of Beastar vibe from how the storyline is constructed as it features (what I feel like is going to be) a deeper discussion about the ethical issues of carnivores and herbivores in a furry world setting. I also get a bit of Echo, as you'd have to piece a whole, rather dark story together from fragments in each route. Overall this is pretty interesting and I look forward to how the story unfolds.
As for the nsfw scenes, I was threw off a bit by the scene with Conner. Considering that in the story, the MC and Conner have only met up after they haven't seen each other in years. More so, even after you chose "I don't know" as a response to Conner's advancement, after the sex scene, he still declares you and him are now boyfriends, which feels a bit forced. (I'm guessing that Conner's position is most likely Switch top / vers? Tbh if I go after someone who I had a one-way crush on, I'd ask what position that person prefer first lol...)
I had a look at the survey results you posted, it had me roll my eyes a bit but I'm not really surprised. We chatted several months back about this issue with bara VNs / games, I think the conclusions still stand: an overwhelming amount of people think all the bigger, buffier dudes have to be dom tops, and the shy little orca has to be the sub bottom.
I know you will have to take audience's overall preference into consideration, but I do hope that even if you are gonna assign a certain position to each character, you can still give them a bit versatility, so people who don't feel strongly about certain characters due to their positions would still try their routes, instead of avoiding them altogether.