I'm really struggling to understand the reasoning of locking progression behind day counters.
It's not like you can miss events if you don't do them by some date - progression is still reliant on you interacting with characters, the world will wait for you to complete the story. So you can either play normally and be constantly hit with "next event of this character will unlock in 3 days, talk with others" or just skip 60 or so days from the start and enjoy uninterrupted scenes.
2 reasons:
1. so the storyline make sense.
2. Later events will not make any sense when people talk about the events that preceded them.
Currently there are over 450 events in the game that take place more or less from Day 12 - Day 150.
Unless you spend time grinding cash (which is completely unnecessary), everyday from 12-150 should have a minimum of 2 events unless you choose to AVOID anyone. Most of the women know of one another in some way, many interact, text, and meet up when MC is not around, they discuss things off-screen.
That's the setup.
LTA is a deeper narrative than the traditional fap AVN. We take the "NOVEL" portion seriously. I understand some people take issue with long emotional dialogue in a porn game. But that's what LTA has become - a novel with 50+ characters loosely connected outside of the events with MC. WIth erotic and non-erotic images and animations.