Do I understand correctly that a number of people dislike this on the basis of future chapters that they’ve written in their own heads?
Just trying to get the context here . . .
Nope- they are basing it on what seems to be the direction it is heading in judging by ch1 - AND - the authors style in almost ALL previous works. Just check out NTR etc if you haven't read them.
Maybe they are to your taste- some seem to like none stop angst and melodrama and loved triangle / cheating type stuff.
But there are plenty who do not - and looking at the set up, its not much of a jump to say this looks no different.
ALSO- 5 chapters are out in spanish and someone who checked the raws commented about dropping it because of all the angst and melodrama etc too..
So it is NOT people just 'guessing' the future chapters general content.