There are three things that make this game unbearable:
1. Diary is shit. Hints are not even hints, they are more like ideas or orders, and it feels like a puzzle most of the time. If you miss a key clue hidden in tons of text you're fucked. Example: - become a tutor, doesn't tell me how, where to start from and what is my next step. Just an example and I am talking about what is in the diary not what the walkthrough says or what Sally says. Other quests are far more detailed, so it's just a random thing, I guess some quests get more attention as others are not that important?
2. Some events can happen in any order at any time. Some times you can trigger them and then they lock so no more progression is available because of some other quest taking over the flags.
3. Too much talking (same dialogues) and walking around (aimlessly) trying to guess what the devs intended. Without a half-decent diary system, this takes weeks (in-game) before you stumble a new thing. Can all be fixed of item 1 above is given some attention (past and future quests alike). The walking around a bit can trigger other quests that should not always trigger.
On top of the above Akabur had a very nice idea: some sort of corruption mechanic or meter or counter. In this game, you can see the girls topless (hermi's swimsuit) in a ridiculously short amount of time (story-wise) if you do everything right. There is no trust-building to speak of and then the game stops and invites you to wait for a few more months for a decent amount of content (or check the game monthly for more text with no real progression). I am liking this game less and less every 3-4 months when I actually check it.
I don't mind critique but lets be realistic here about your 3 points.
1. Simply yes. It doesn't tell you shit, it just tells you what to accomplish not on how to actually do so. But its alot better then last time. However this needs to be done better i agree but since they wanna finish this game in 2020 i highly doubt it will get any better they will simply write a walkthrough and flood the forums and patreon with it. Less work they can spend on other issues.
2. Yes again but you have to realize this is still a work in progress build this is not a finished game where you add stuff every time you update it. While i don't know shit about coding and programing i do know that you have to rewrite alot of old stuff to make new stuff work. In all this confusion even AAA Titles have these kind of bugs that are in a final build of a game with alot more money avaliable then this dev team does.
While i agree its horrible to play that way i learned very early to do side quests i am interested in first before doing any main story stuff and quicksave alot to avoid all of that.
3. This is a problem. The Skip function skips sometimes all of the dialouge and all of the animations as well. But the peeking for example is way to slow but if you push the skip to long you completely skip it. Or you sit there for 4 minutes before you get to the good stuff. This creates the problem that you have only 2 options.
Read tons of dialouge no one cares about or was already read hundreds of times (we have to grind through every update again) or if you decide to skip the dialouge miss key information and repeat all over again to get a hint on when to do what.
I agree that this has to be done better but the main problem arises again they only have 30 days from one update to the next and the issues require alot more time to fix all that or actually paid pros to do it in the amount of time which would eat the entire budged this game produces and even more.
Or to put it simple: They do not have the amount of money to hire absolute pros of the business to get rid of all those issues said amount of time and the ones who actually work on it do not have the experience of business pros.
So either they rework the game to improve it or they make new content. Both is not possible in this amount of time without losing alot of money in the process cause ppl demand stuff yesterday. Not everyone has SS Budget and even there they only have 2 pros working on the game.
And for the trust building. People waited 3 years to actually get to fuck one of the girls. If they put that aside again to actually improve anything else aside from delivering a promised sex scene patreon and this forum will go absolutely nuts on them.