I can't say I care about losing the prostitution scenes purely from a gameplay standpoint. I only went thru those scenes to see if they were necessary to progress her story, I'm not exactly thrilled to pay an unwilling prostitute (or any for that matter). That said, I think it's a little unfortunate it makes the game seem a little less dark and depressing, but there are plenty of other ways to do that.
Either way I can't say I understand the outrage over it, the game still has a long way to go and it's been here for a while; none of us have any clue how it's actually gonna turn out.
The gun has potential. I think it would be a missed opportunity to leave it out of the game when you're living in some dystopian society where nobody except the gubberment is supposed to have one. The main character seems kind of... tame? this version. I don't know for certain if it's any different to 7.12, but iirc he was bit more unhinged in that playthrough. Considering the shop owner is still beating yui might as well have him kill her or something. Not in a white knight way, but she jeopardized his secret of not taking tha pills after he got too close to to yui and had to slime her. (so he doesn't lose his blackrock/blackstone ahh real estate that pays for all the estradiol he buys to get his robot maid to molest him in his sleep

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The depression bar doesn't seem to do anything, and it seems very difficult to keep down either way (I just leave it maxed)
I did like the new "in heat" animation, makes her actually seem horny. iirc the old one just seemed like she was sad/broken and then later that night she'd be bouncing and doing tricks on it. I'd like to see a variety or progression to the somno text lines where our character gets diddled. Having their interaction act like it's the first time it happened when... it's not the first time she diddled him in his sleep is weird; but if the implementation of specific "in heat" lines (for the second time shes in it) is anything to go by, that's going to be added anyway.
The bookstore girl interaction I think was done pretty well. Y'know, she's not overtly and excessively friendly from the start, just weird from presumably very rarely interacting with anyone. I'd like to see more of her side story even if it doesn't necessarily lead anywhere.
Giving the wood shop owner a face is nice but I can't help but think she should be more muscular/tomboy-esque just by nature of her job and personality (also it'd give variety to the character builds to a greater degree).
For one of the few games that seems to have more of an actually unique story than just unadulterated goon I'm interested in where it'll go, but overall this seems like an improvement even in light of the deleted content. If I wasn't such a dirty poor I'd sub to patreon or something.