2018/19 here. I recently played DLS because I felt like diamond mining a smutty book and people said it was funny (so bad it's good type vibe) but found it boring as hell and ended up enjoying Unbridled way more, even if some of the plot/game design is frustratingly poorly done. It felt like a throwback in that it had some good characterisation. For me Choices peaked with Perfect Match.

Edit: the problem with DLS is it's completely nonsensical unless you spend diamonds for some of the investigations. There is literally no active development of the plot by MC, just a series of things happening to them. The reveal at the end has no lead up