I really don't get why people get mad all of a sudden with this update. Honestly, the game was a buggy mess before, it has always been. The way the game was progressing was a tad too complicated, for the player sure, but definitely for the dev too. It was too hard to add all the missing trigger that would make the game coherent, there was already just too many different event. And since it was so hard to get through the game, it wasn't attracting more players.
I really think it was very courageous of the dev to admit it and go back to the base. Sure it would have been better if it was developed differently from the start, but then i'd like to remind you the dev is no seasoned VN maker and there was back then no reason to think the story would get so tentacular. On that topic i think there is much to say.
I don't think the phone gameplay is right for an extended experience. It gets tedious really fast. It's okay for those of us who started the game on early build, making each session quite short, but am pretty sure we all push the skip button way too much. In other words, or the gameplay diversify or you make the gameplay more scarse. At this point i think it would be weird, not to say hard, to add new layer of gameplay. So the gameplay need to be lighter. So no more skipping time, no more goin through the differents messages, phones, instagram pages and all of that but when it bear meaning.