I'm fine with the extra scenes being more connected, but honestly I would kind of rather they be completely disconnected. I didn't pay the extra cash for HC2 specifically because a lot of the scenes felt like throw away scenes, like they were scenes that were kind of connected but not important enough to actually include. I don't find the HC3 scenes particularly interesting because they're main quest adjacent which causes them to feel disruptive to the flow.
Personally I would rather the extra scenes be connected to the mini stories. Like, say, we've seen the fishmonger's wife giving head to the loan shark in an alley and presumably again on Sundath morning where her husband is looking for her. And those are great and all, but I'd like to see an actual scene. Follow a mini story to completion and we get an extra scene of the wife fucking the loan shark before work, or the mom who's "tutoring" the bully getting some while her son waits outside the house, and so on and so forth. Those stories getting scenes would give incentive to play them.