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Well, to be fair it's not really "so soon after initial release". It's coming up on 3 years since its first version, and this is Season 3 of the game, so the full two seasons of content prior to the current is considerable. Now, I admit that I only play the sandbox version. But even if you strip away the navigation and extra stuff from that (like getting books or working for money), the time with all of the scenes to progress individual characters' stories as well as the main plot is pretty lengthy. So it's been quite awhile since the initial release.I think the proofreading bugfixing stuff probably should've been done no matter what, but the rest of the stuff does seems like it should've been done after the whole game was finished. Having more time between finishing the episode and remastering it like that would've made the remaster more impactful too. Weren't a couple of the recent Season 3 updates also primarily "correcting" the content rather than adding it? It kinda seems like someone on the dev team got a "go back and make sure everything in the game so far is up to [some arbitrary] standard" bee in their bonnet recently. "Improving" content so soon after initial release doesn't feel like an upgrade when the content was already fine though. Kinda feels like a project's just spinning its wheels when that happens
But yes, I don't feel like these additions and improvements were necessary. The extra scenes in Season 2 could just as easily have been worked into Season 3, other than those where a character now is absent, like Lily. I'm also unmotivated to go back to Season 2 to try to see the new scenes. If they are repeatable, I assume they'll be in Season 3 as well. If they aren't, I guess I'll just miss them unless magically I have a change of heart in the future (doubtful).