Still a pain to use compared to renpy VNs while having no features to set it apart from those. Manually doing next message appears to not be an option anymore? It was really poor functioning last time so it's not really a loss, but there's a delay on pause, play, and fast forward, so it still feels bad.
I see things refining and improving in general, progress is certainly happening, but it remains one of the few times a VN has bad controls for me.
I don't feel like talking about the characterization and writing. I hope the dev is having fun doing it, I think I sense that.