With all the complaining I'm seeing here, genuinely wouldn't be surprised if he actually abandons the game.
Wanna hear harsh truth? This update already smells ''abandoned'' because at this point, after 4 years of development we all know what's happening here, 4 years is enough time to finish a game like this with no serious story, this update didn't even needed to exist at this point, this is a type of update you should wait from 2 years of development game since it has nearly no progress at all, not from 4 years, but instead all we see is the game getting dragged more and more, do I need even to explain why? DEV is milking at this point, this update clearly shows that, if he wasn't he would progress relationships with this update, but instead he keeps doing same teasing/cockblocking/blueballing updates over and over again, intentionally not progressing relationships so he can milk more and more, we are going circles now, and I bet next update we won't get any progress with the girls we didn't again, since milking started I can't see it ending with next update.
Fanboys of the DEV is wild as well, these people literally guarding 4 years of development with nearly no progress with some main girls, and saying the game is ''bit slow burn, but pace is perfect'' or some shit, honestly at this point I really wonder how many years need to pass for these people to say ''this is too slow burn, it's not okay'' etc, maybe 10 years? Who knows
But by all means, I still love first 7 chapter of this game, DEV did really good job with improving the game, and I love Amelie as well even tho found DEVs writing about her with all this blueballing nonsense AF, so let's hope I'm wrong, and DEV will do better job with next update.