I think Maya will have the best redemption arc while Bella will have the biggest fall from grace and i never liked Josy anyways, even in the beginning, she just never clicked with me.
If DPC wants i can see a "Maya Redemption Arc", and if she gets a solo route again, a lot of her fans will come running back to her, so at least here she can get some more love, since at Patreon it seems they really never liked her much.
About Bella, unless she is revealed as a psycho killer or something really disturbing, i don't see most of her fans caring much. People on her route is already expecting the worst after her library scene, and if someone isn't, it's better to start now.
Speaking only for myself (as I generally tend to do
), I don't get that at all. Josy is smoking hot and there really isn't anything about her personality I dislike either. Maybe I'm just too generous and trusting a person, but even with all the dishonesty and her willingness to seemingly abandon Maya, the MC, and all her problems by running away to the other side of the country, I don't bear her any ill-will at all. Could I just be thinking with my dick? Perhaps, but it mostly feels like sympathy, that if she were someone I knew in real life I'd want to be there for her, make her happy, and treat her like a princess because I feel like it's what she deserves, her and Maya.
If she was as unpopular as you say, I can only imagine it had to do with her lack of screentime in the early chapters and people feeling like she ruined their thing with Maya by being her girlfriend, because other than that I don't see a single thing wrong with her.
Oh, she was unpopular, but not disliked. It was more in the sense that she wasn't "best girl" or have fans, etc... to a lot of people. Most posters would put Josy always in the middle of the road, because she was likeable, she actually has no flaws and even after 0.4, if you notice, people only hate on her because of the Maya situation, not because of her personality. Even in the looks department, i think she is the one closest to my "type", but her lack of screen time and because of how muted her presence in the game was, even now, she is seem more as a second fiddle to the Maya drama, made people just don't care about her.
That's why i don't see her going up in popularity much unless DPC really focus on her in some capacity. So i do see the possibility of Maya regaining her fanbase, but not of Josy creating hers.
Or if she wasn't being completely honest about how far things went with Rusty. Some people I've seen also wouldn't be too happy if she and Bella did hook-up, even if it was only once.
I can see something else. Maybe she is more of an elitist than she let's on and when the MC notices it, maybe it will rub him the wrong way? Some posts back you guys were talking about when she ratted out Chad to the College without the MC's permission. That was a breach of trust that shows that at some capacity she thinks "she knows better", for now we think that she is like that because she likes the MC and is stubborn, but what if, it's because, in some capacity, maybe even subconsciously, she views herself as "better" than him? That would be one hell of a flaw to tackle going forward, because it could be something that Jill herself don't think it's important or notice.