I dunno, Frank's OLTL and earlier GH with Ron both got pretty hot and heavy at times. Including when he first took over at OLTL and Troy and Lindsay got down and dirty from behind on Malone II's first week. A sequence that will live in infamy! OLTL did not lack for sex and illicit behavior in his era. He even encouraged Thom Christopher and David Fumero to improv their highly homoerotic prison scenes.
I think FV is a chameleon who responds to the times, but whose own personal tastes have ossified in some ways. I think he takes a lot of himself out of the equation on certain elements (and not others, ergo his playing favorites) and he is determined to make the show survive above all. And I think he has decided that the GH that has survived into the Trump, etc. era is now an often chaste, heterocentric and 'safe' one catering to his perception of senior Facebook viewers. (That's how you get the EP who once championed a frontburner interracial love triangle with Renee Elise Goldsberry running and hiding from Spencer and Trina 20 years later.) Hence the years we've spent with these WASP couples pumping out babies ever since roughly 2016, the year before which he avoided the axe by letting Carlivati walk the plank. For better or worse, GH's libido went with RC. But that was also when the country began to really change (or show its old/new face).
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