After waiting for some people to help me with the various issues I identified with, and seeing the lack of assistance, I decided to start over from scratch and thus complete the path.
Some post-pathway considerations:
- The help system, despite having several shortcomings that I will list, works if you start from scratch, whereas if you start from old saves, it seems to fail to correctly track what has been done and what has yet to be completed.
- There is no indication (which only appeared at the end of the path, and in a couple of cases) of how many times an action should be repeated (if it’s always the same, you get tired and stop, whereas on the nth repetition, something changes).
- There is no indication of where and when to encounter a character and interact with them (if you’re not in a specific place or time, that dialogue and action won’t appear).
The game is still beautiful, though it seems the "producer" doesn’t pay enough attention to the "user experience."