It's not going away forever. Think of it more as I am moving it from the beginning of the game where only a few people can get the outcome even if they are working towards it to later in the game where more people will be able to find it more naturally.
The problem comes with it just adds to drastic of a variable and takes away a lot of time in development for a path that is extremely burred.
I am actually very happy that people like Evaline as much as they do but I'll be honest she was never meant to have as much content as she does in the early game. I just felt that with how the story was playing out that Vivian would have invited her to stay with her and that is was a natural thing to do, but I had never intended that to happen so now I had to add additional content for her that as much as I like it and am happy with it has added a lot of extra work.
In many ways it would be nice if I had a team of writers where I would write a scenario and then their job would be to rewrite that scenario but accounting for different possibilities
I liked the path that leads to an argument between Eva, Des and Viv at Rebecca's party. It allowed to learn what happened between Des and Eva from Eva's point of view.
It's a hard path to find, and oddly enough I found it quickly the first few times I started this game. But since I didn't have a save of this path, I tried to go back, and I had to do about ten tries to get there.
I understand the need to simplify the game. For the path where Viv rejects her mother, and where she tells her aunt that she will give an answer on Sunday or Monday for her mother's return from Germany, will this path still exist?
Otherwise my favorite path at the moment is where Eva becomes Viv's sister and Des becomes Vivian's pet, according to the code it's DomLov, so Viv leaves the choice to Des.
But I'm also looking forward to the date with Harper (casual)
And especially thank you for the game, I played dozens of times, and I know by looking at the code that there are still some paths that I have not done. I will keep the version 5.3 to discover them gradually even if they disappear from 5.4.