Even after the ending I'm still convinced this game is 95% Sima's wish fulfilment, including the love interests. In a sane world where people can research currently forbidden subjects without the APA et al breathing down their necks, works of fiction like this would be a psychologist's wet dream: a person's entire psyche, completely laid out for everyone made possible by combining an unwarranted producer's position and a special interest budget with a degree of self-importance that can only be forged through decades of uninterrupted praise.
Ryan is the man she deep down wants to fuck, even though she'd never admit to that in public. Maybe he's both producers' fap material.
> But she is a self-professed lesbian
Lesbians are a 24/7 game of play-pretend similar to trannies. They're two sides of the same coin. One is an incel cope taken too far, the other a femcel cope taken too far.
That said: The Steph love interest is still part of her wish fulfilment. She wishes that she was really attracted to women and that she could have a real lesbian love interest that she can actually emotionally connect to, unlike whatever she has in real life. A lot of 'lesbians' make fiction for that purpose.