Luckily I only latched onto this game a month or so ago, cause I cannot believe this community A) bitches about delays whil ALSO demanding a 5 new charatcers and a new novel about them every update. I mean it is beyond ridiculous. Harem Hotel managed to provide content, story, character, and heart while being a phenomenal porn game. Where is the balance?! For every 10 lines of sex, there's 200 lines of POINTLESS nonsense and anime wannabe bullshit. Not saying there shouldnt be background, but holy hell there are 40 characters and you only fuck a dozen?? FOCUS ON THE DOZEN and maybe Dev won't freak out after 2 years!
No one is demanding new characters. If anything, people were starting to get annoyed at the fan inserts, as a good chuck of them are fairly bland. Fortunately, they're no longer being added.
Personally, I'm cool with the amount. This is supposed to cover 365 in game days, after all, so rushing through a smaller cast would lead to a dead air eventually. At the very least, if you forced me to cut the cast down to a dozen, I'd definitely struggle.
Edit: Also, I think the Fap Mode is busted. At least in my experience, I've only managed to get it working once, and only during Week 1. I think that might be another thing that broke almost instantly after Week 1. Noone seems to have ever brought it up, so I'm not sure that's getting fixed for Month 1. I assume so, but I wouldn't be surprised if noone noticed it didn't work. And incase anyone goes to check it out, it's not Fap Mode, it's unchecking Story Mode.