I think the reviewers (like many people in the comments at ANN) found out that the author also does hentai works and that's the angle they took to completely disregard this works (based on some comments mocking the manga saying this is just a fetishism manga) the characters and even the author.
I think it is very likely related to this weird neo-puritan zeitgeist. It is an ever increasingly frustrating ideology that once a LGBT+ artist creates a work that conveys even the slightest bit of sexual thought they are forever tainted as not one of the good upstanding members of the LGBT+ community and now all their works are secretly aimed at cis/het people. Of course this is a bad thing as cis/het people consuming LGBT+ media created by LGBT+ creators is fetishization, where as cis/het people writing queer characters is good and not tokenism because it shows how far we've come in the neoliberal quest for gestures without action. Far more damage is done by excluding LGBT+ creators whose lived experiences or fantasies involve sex or abuse or other "problematic" elements than could ever be done by those evil fetishizing cis/het men and women consuming such media. People's experiences and fantasies involve sex and relationships that are not perfect and healthy, erasing these stories and creators from LGBT+ spaces because you dislike them or think that some greater public will dislike them and thus set back the "movement" is no better than the outright attacks by the religious neofascists who have used these same refrains of pedophilia and abuse for 60 years.
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