Just throwing my hat into the ring for a second to agree with the past couple pages.
The story abandoning itself is a downturn along with ignoring the just mentioned mechanics, but I have played a couple other games that have that issue as well, so it doesn't bother me as my biggest gripe. But, the artwork comparison does, sadly, esp. with the orcs. The noticeable change in Sabia's physique is clear, but I'm disappointed in how the art has moved in sharp, crisp lines that make the characters look unappealing. I think it's most viewable in Sabia's hair or the orcs upper body where they look blocky instead of muscular. It certainly doesn't help that since this change in art, the scenes they've created with it are reused. This combination makes the newest updates feel lazy overall (the new Ylva scenes were actually alright, imo but that was it), but that's been a valid complaint for a long time now.
Pretty disappointing because I wasn't very keen on this game at first, but I've gone back and played through it a few times now. The JMod & additional scenes created for it through the community were great though they've unfortunately stopped as well but I guess that's to be expected when the developer barely updates the game for the community to even expand upon.