I'm replaying through the latest version and it's impressive how much the game is widening in terms of quests to do and characters to visit in freeroam. That said the freeroam experience is really clunky right now :
1) After each Npc's first encounter, you should have them readily accessible from the start of every urban area. For example, being able to access the photographer from the Downtown entrance. Navigating the same 5-6 screen transitions every day in order to grind that stuff is really painful.
2) It's going to be really dull to do, but you absolutely need to go back through this game's content and remove every *pause* during dialogue, navigation, scenes, etc. The player should be able to fast-forward and that's currently impossible due to the hundreds of pauses and slow transitions slowing the game down. The metro is a big one, but you also appear to have made the game stop at many '...' dialogue, which is baffling game design.
All in all, the amount of repetitive clicking is really becoming a chore on subsequent playthrough. And after in-game days of navigating the city, I really wish for simplified NPC shortcuts without transitions.