
I think it didn't have sex scenes because they were teens starting their relationship, not because it didn't "need" it. Now they are young adults and it's common to treat each other this way. It probably was the author's intention all along, we don't know for sure. But I don't think it's out of the blue.

Lol they were just very responsible high school students who only started having sex once they're finally past the age of minority. No need to paint the readers as obsessed fujos who wanna see two guys fuck. The quality of this story isn't going to go down just because there's a couple of pages of smut.
I usually don't mind smut but this BL didn't need it in my opinion, I wish it would have stayed cute without the mature parts. Not all BL's need to have sex scenes in it and some of y'all are too obsessed with seeing two people fuck. Theres literally hundreds of other Bls out there that has sex scenes so idk why people think they should be included in everything.