Was/is pretty excited for this game, then I spent two hours clicking around trying to figure out where everything is and why it was all so cryptic (like I don't need hints to explicitly tell you what to do but they have basically nothing to do with your current objective, they're just a reminder of what happened last in the questline. That's not a hint.), only to get completely stuck when I was given the quest to fetch the pot after I completed the quest to do the laundry, so now I can't progress because the phone's not there.
On top of all that there's no worse feeling than realizing the character you've been pursuing hasn't been implemented yet. Not really a mark against the dev, but still made me sad.
Art's great, writing's great, gameplay needs some refinement and bugfixing (if investigate has no gameplay purpose it doesn't need to be there), had to turn music off because it got repetitive pretty quick. Probably will wait for some kind of walkthrough cause I'm here to fap at the end of the day, not puzzle around until I click what I'm supposed to so I can get to maybe fapping by next week.
tl;dr, Definitely shouldn't 'dumb down' the gameplay, but some QoL wouldn't be amiss either. Hope the team sticks with it because it really could end up being great.