To be fair, when Maya is similarly flabbergasted about this idea in game, Josy explains that they
have tried to break Fuckface out of his funk with expressing sincere feels etc and none of that worked. So this is more of a last-ditch, "Whatever, if he insists on being the snowflake then maybe talking to his
other head works better" attempt, and one that was most likely instigated to some degree by Arieth trying to peddle her sex toys to everyone in the HOT house.
I think that, realistically, this is very strongly influenced by how attractive one finds the character in question visually. What i mean by that is, when you take a closer look then the interactions between Cindy and MC are very stock and basic flirting. Same can be said about his interactions with Bianca, which is just flirt with no substance. Yet both of them generate lot of interest with just that, for sure, But replace the girls who utter these lines with Linda or another in-game feminist, or even someone more popular with the playerbase like
Donald Trump Sally, and despite the interaction being technically the same, the only chemistry it generates is an outpour of gastric juices or, at best, no reaction whatsoever.
It's the "human resources?" meme writ large.
So i think, even though it's not very charitable take, that the real issue boils down to whether the individual player finds Zoey attractive enough to hold their interest. If they don't, then no amount of award-winning writing is going to change that. And given how many people are vocal about disliking tattoos on their porn girls, it's not surprising in the least how this character could easily be divisive. Even if a lot of it can be subconscious.
Yes. Yes, it is, and yes, she does.