Having very few issues personally, and the machine translation is pretty simple to understand (for me anyways). I really enjoy the game, and though the creating a school & characters is tedious it's still fun for me haha.
If you're having issues:
1.Redownload to make sure it didn't get corrupted
2.replace the schoollife.qsp with the eng translated qsp file, changing the name to schoollife.qsp
3.don't click "to create a character" on the first screen, click to create a school (if creating a new game) the create a character option refers to a generator that is a seperate program to the main game... sort of like a fan created mod, and it won't work if you don't have that downloaded (I doubt it would work downloaded anyways, because it doesn't have an up-to-date english translation, and machine translation would probably break it)
4.if you get a bug during the game and can't do anything, I personally recommend just restarting rather than doing the emergency escape in the bottom right, because it can cause it to be buggier.
I've been playing since about 3.8 I think? and i'm fairly used to understanding machine translations in general due to wanting to play games with 0 translation haha. Rus to Eng machine translation is a lot easier to understand than Jap to Eng machine translation