Well, I already shared my thoughts on the official discord so might as well do it here too. Although I'll shorten in.. doubt many are interested in reading a long ass wall of text anyway.
As someone who loves Allison the most, I honestly don't know what to think anymore.
First of all I'd like to say that this update had some nice Allison moments. We could see her smiling around Jake, being happy and encouraging towards him too. Her barriers slowly falling down. In episode 1, she would never agree to share a bed with him but here we are in episode 3 when she is comfortable enough to sleep in one bed with Jake. The cherry on top is that once she wakes up and realizes he is spooning her in his sleep with a boner, she doesn't angrily push him away. She reminisces about their past and how she misses this kind of contact. It is clear that she still has feelings for Jake, perhaps still loves him and it is the reason why she hasn't been able to move on.
As we are making choices that make Jake interact more with her, Allie is slowly but surely progressing and warming up to him. The question is, does interacting more with Allie has any effect on Jake too? Is he maybe picking up on the signs that she no longer hates his guts and she isn't doing it all just because of Lily? The answer is no.
All these Allie scenes are nice for me as a player, she finally got more than just 3 scenes which she had in the first part! Unfortunately it gets overshadowed when you realize that Jake is still in the same mindset towards her as he was in episode 1. His thinking when it comes to Allie is still the same and there is nothing that would suggest this should even slightly change anytime soon.
I understand that this is a slow burn but we are 3 updates into the game, 10k renders + and there is no sign, hint or anything from him. They are sharing these moments together and he has no inner thoughts.. "I miss her", "Can I make this right", "I should try more making it up to her".. anything of this sort goes a long way because then he and I as a player have a shared goal and I can actually root for him.
You may wanna tell me that Jake saying "well, I'll solve that puzzle later" surely must count for something but it really doesn't. His lack of progress regarding Allie just tells me he'll be satisfied finding out she doesn't hate him and that's it. He isn't interested in doing anything more. Besides considering his overall attitude, he could decide to find out 5 chapters from now. It doesn't seem that important to him at all..
I honestly feel like that once I do get choices to get closer to her, I will be going against what Jake as a character wants. I will be forcing him and from players perspective this is a god awful feeling.
Allie's path as of right now, it doesn't even exist. In order for it to exist it would require progression from both of the parties and while we see Allie slowly progressing when it comes to Jake, we see no such thing from him when it comes to her. It is pretty much what I said above, he isn't interested in going the extra mile and getting closer to her and when there is no interest from the MC, there is no path for the girl.