I guess I am one of the rare ones who find the pacing balance between H and story progression of this title to be quite on point... Like chapter 1 is basically the prologue, and in which they show the Highlander base to be in a relatively state of order, which will be contrasted later on against chapter 4's chaotic Highlander base. So the H scenes being limited to mostly softcore humiliation against the MC actually makes sense.
Especially since right after that in chapter 2 they allow the player to choose between whether you want to continue with the softcore approach so the MC return to base in chapter 4 as a virgin so that Team 0 guy's threats have more weight, or you can just make the MC go straight to hardcore goblin sex hell which is supposed to be a "slave route" on its own. This trend is continued in chapter 3 in which you can choose between dungeon crawling or prostitution to gather money to advance the main quest. You even get a side plot in which the MC is drugged(or hacked, in this story's terms), forced into making AVs and marked as a sex slave by the gang in the Storage city if you choose to go down that path.
Personally I find chapter 2's slave route and chapter 3's gang route kind of contradicts the impact of chapter 4's twist beginning. Like, if she has already went through the goblin and gang sex slave routes, Team 0 guy making her wear that revealing uniform just loses all its impact. Like that feeling of "she's already sucking goblin and gang dicks like candy, oh hey she's now showing some nipples, yeah big fking deal..."
But I am also one of the few who likes the first half of titles like
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with emphasis on the softcore humiliation such as stripping and groping, more than the second half with the hardcore sex and pregnancy, so maybe it's just me haha
EDIT: Though I do worry about how much stuff they have planned which still needs to be completed before release. The development will probably stretch into late 2023 or even 2024 at the current pace.