Thats true, it is grinding. But its a part of the game, the game is built around the fact that you need to figure out how to manage your time. Removing that aspect of the game, trivialize it to a point that it's just a VN.
I agree that the game needs a place where you can review the pointers, in terms of what scenes are possible to achieve. There are a few that are easy to miss and also quite easy to forget. (Maybe a notebook in the bedroom, or a diary. Like Peta's birthday is zz of season y, and she usually trains in the MMA-Room on XXXday at 19.00)
But you shouldnt play an RPG/DS like this if you dont enjoy the elements of time/resource -management.
Well that sounds harsh, but i mean you dont play a game that has lets say non consensual sex in it if you hate that, right?
And dont get me wrong, ive been screaming at the game at times cause its infuriates me from time to time. But thats a big part of a game like this.
The biggest issue is that when you release games like this in many and frequent updates, it can be annoying if you cant use old saves. But other than that, i dont think the grind part is an issue at all.
But i believe the old phone cheat for this game still works. So just search in the thread if you want it