Mason and Gabby are at the bottom of the totem pole for me but the update is great, prolly the biggest update to date.
We have plenty of content with the main girls of the update plus several interactions with others.
Some say that introducing more people to the game is a bad idea but I don't think so. This is not a vn about a school boy and his steplandladies. There is a bigger picture to cover so you need more npcs. We have to keep in mind that npcs don't need the same screen time as main love interests. Like the girl working in The posh pit, she can be there just to mess with Viola and show you how shitty people are. She doesn't need sex scenes, proper routes or whatever, she's a npc in a bigger world than your landlady home.