This aspect (romances and similar) doesn't interest me at all, albeit that I think there needs to be a LOT more open visible sexuality in this game. It was pretty tame on launch, a big disappointment in that respect. Now we have a post launch censored version it's even less than was expected for a futuristic cyberpunk vision. In the bars, clubs, alleyways, cars etc I'd like to see far more graphic sexuality, more obvious partial erotic exposure clothing, see thru, NPC and player, far more adult advertising videos and signage similar to red light districts in Asia. The one or two supposedly 'gogo' bars are a bit pathetic. The game is sterile and unrealistic today, one would have got more thrill (pre-Covid) walking down Soi Cowboy in Bangkok in RL than in the game's supposedly 'illicit' area Jig Jig Street, it's certainly nothing like our famous 'Walking Street' area in Pattaya as a red light bar zone. If this was a PG game they'd allow the same violence but this is what we would have expected their watered down view of sexuality would have been. Given what's gone before it's limp.
While I don't want to simulate a 'romantic' relationship at all with a player, I can see why people do. I would like a (fighting) companion system as it's annoying that this doesn't officially exist in game and that only by glitch or mods can you make this happen and there are bugs that result. Compared to Skyrim it's rubbish.
I tried one female 'Joytoy' and the 15 second blue tinted cut screen sequence not even up to 'soft' porn standards was a total let down, especially as the only thing I saw of V was her ankles at the end. Waste of time, won't bother with those again. See more sex in a TV advert.
To be honest I've seen better looking NPC ladies than the obvious Judy/Panam obsessions, I'd rather have interactions with them, and I'd rather have some of their outfits.