As per Lily, you might try reading the entire conversation, not just responding to a part of it.
I read it, I just don't think it's fair to blithely dismiss examples of people working simply because they're strippers. We see other students working when that work is relevant to the story.
A question for people that have been playing this game from the beginning: DPC has been adding spots for new girls in the "rewards" section? Or the spots were there from the beginning, and only new renders have been added to its corresponding spot? I ask because there is no spot for Zoey in the "rewards" section. That can be a clue about if she´s going to be a character only for the "interlude", or is going to be a recurrent character for the rest of the game. Even secondary characters, like Sally or Envy have their own spot. And there is no more space right now for a new girl...
I've only played since Episode 4, but this is what the reward screen looked like then:
Given how much DPC loves to overhaul the UI, I'd be shocked if he doesn't add Zoey to the rewards at some point in Season 3.
Chad's story is not over simply because it did not exhaust itself, Sage must have his apologies one way or another
you are too worried about defending BADIK so you always assume that if something hasn't happened yet it's ok, it's perfect and it will never happen again.
the same thing happened with Mona: how was it possible that Sage was working so hard for Maya and instead she didn't do anything for her stepdaughter? and in fact now we know that she's trying to contact Mona too, maybe she won't make it (I think Mona will be fundamental in cornering Burke) but it wasn't possible that she didn't try...
BADIK is still in the middle, there's all the time in the world for everything to still happen
I don't think Sage is going to push Chad for an apology any further (assuming you told her), though I'm sure she'd still like one.
But I don't understand what you're saying about Mona. By the time Sage took an actual interest in Maya (as opposed to dismissing her concerns about Quinn in Episode 3), Mona had already left. You note that Sage has tried to contact Mona since then. Since she isn't returning the calls, what more do you think Sage should be doing? Even if Sage has Mona's address and it was within a reasonable distance, there's no guarantee dropping by uninvited would go much better.
EDIT:
It's true we know little about the content of the Interlude. As usual DPC likes to keep his cards close.
He as quite explicit that the save transfer system will be used, to test that it goes smoothly without blowing up all of episode 9 if it faceplants:
I don't know that this suggests it "must have some elements that key off decisions we've made so far, or it will require us to make new decisions (and thus wants to add them to the old saves rather than having to import two files into Episode 9)."
DPC can test the save transfers worked without actually using them for anything in the Interlude. Indeed it would make sense not to, as then don't have to triage variable changes in Interlude + problems from the season 2 transfers.
Which is also why it's short, can sort it out before gets too far advanced with coding episode 9.
Sure, the Interlude could just access the save data as a test, but what exactly does that prove? DPC has presumably already tested that. Unless the Interlude tosses in a screen showing the imported variables (which DPC would never do, IMHO), it needs to branch based on that data to be worth importing it at this point. (Or, as I said, it needs to add new data based on choices within the Interlude.)
