This is why I felt its best to just start this whole thing from near scratch. She's already created the world and characters and (at least I hope) knows what to do with them and where to go and how to end the story and all the personal characters arcs so none of that would actually be lost. But the game from top to bottom either needs to be fixed, finished, or pulled out of her spaghetti hard code. I think if any project manager worth their salt looked this game and saw that half the core systems were either W.I.P.s that have been W.I.P.s for years or just straight up broken he would have decided that this iteration of the project needs to be scrapped and start over.Now that I think about it, you have a point... It feels like she decided to add a bunch of RPG elements just because they are a staple in most RPG games. It really doesn't fit the setting nor the lore aside from flavor and giving the illusion of creating a personalized character build. This is yet another feature of the game that sooner or later needs to be revamped (again). Just like the whole fetish thing, which ATM doesn't really do much. And all the other shallow systems that went nowhere.
Inno needs to stop and take a good look at the overall state of the game and the product she wants to deliver because even though this is an alpha, LT has been in development for 5 years and we still have a lot of basic systems as placeholders. You can't build good walls on shaky foundations. She needs to think long-term.
I know exactly where people are coming from when it comes to wanting to push the game's story forward since pushing it forward entails new features and new content thats meaningful, but this is still a GAME, and the GAME parts has still yet to be figured or fixed. Im much more in favor or having this game start over than pushing forward an underdeveloped fetus to graduate college. I dont know why people would rather have Inno reach the end of this story on the back of W.I.P. poorly thought out version of a combat system and then wait for said system to get completed, thats backwards to me. Make the GAME first.