So I started looking into doing another cleanup run, and very good news! It seems that actually
MoistSponge did in fact incorporate some of my suggestions in the earlier game days!
(Mostly things like using variables for character names rather than hard coding them in dialogue.)
I'll post back when I get more time to actually look at this.
But it looks like it should be mostly down to the days that have been created (Quests/day <number>) since I last ran this, which was around day 17 or so. We are now up to day 22.
Doing a quick diff between the newly edited files I've run through a parsing script and the default ones from the 0.59 release, the numbers show it only wildly diverges at day_18 and above.