I've been recently checking the progress of the game through Kemono Party + the official x channel because that also helps with getting where things are at. I won't make any excuses + defenses because any form of Denuvo implementation is pussy behavior to me and MTX in a game you need to pay up front for to play is scumbag behavior.
However it's interesting how they're making a single player version of Harem Mode. After all these years, what made them have the trace of self-awareness to realize that nobody was asking for a bootleg version of VR Chat / Second Life? The choice didn't cause me to go into some retarded tantrum about imaginary alphabet people or some other cringe bullshit, but it was a baffling choice that was clearly only done to have an excuse for adding microtransactions into what is still just a gallery mode.
As for thing it seems that the game has doubled the roster of waifus since the last version we had before the previous cracker sold their soul and everyone else gave up, as well as a bunch of new sex animations to go with them. How good those animations are currently, I don't know, as I don't have access to the paid game at the moment.
As it stands, I still don't think it's worth $30+ for the game to harass me into paying extra to skip a dreadful grind, but hey, people whale in porn gachas with far less accessible porn content, so I know for a fact I could be doing worse with my money, especially as more gets added. (Still waiting for the Futa content they kept teasing at being a thing for awhile, for example.)