All the HC games are this way when you play update to update. Just let it finish and come back.
Or at least don't play every update, i myself played HC2 like 3 times? Once around update 5 or 8 (to check it out), then later when a like almost 2 years (or at least it feelt like that xD) had passed and last when it was finished.
Honestly half the complains i see could be avoided with some common sense, i do feel so many heroines can be bad but the game is so big that saying you hate X heroine's plot early on is dumb since so much stuff can happen, i experienced that with basically anyone not the mom or stepsister in the second game lol