Here are really a lot of people are a bit disappointed of the new version and I tend to agree, but why?
There is tons of new content, events, art, animations, new game mechanics - I liked the idea with the chats a lot ... it took me a couple of hours to play through it. No comparison to the average patreon game which offers you half an hour of new gameplay for 1-2 months of developement (summed up to a similar dev time Akabur is probably way ahead). So you cannot complain, Akabur did work for his money.
However, what makes the game a disappointment then!?
For me it is of course that the nsfw content is missing, there are 19 new events featuring Hermione and we get two boobie flashes, nothing more!? We literally only get the first two events of the Witch Trainer in a slightly refurbished form. For that I can play the original again!
Also I am missing an effect of the mastery points in the game - I had most of them at 1 or 2 at the end. But also those with 10/10 did not show any impact on gameplay, Jasmine came back and repeated the same Phrase over and over again - lame. The variation there made Akabur's first games so good, without that the game will end up being a standard visual novel with extra grinding on top.
Finally, it is kind of anoying that all the hard work is for other people, not for the MC. You literally spend money so Aladdin gets sucked off - although he should pay you money for that!
I hope Akabur focuses a bit more on rewarding content in Episode 3, the Ashelin and Jasmine should include some real action - including the MC. To wait another year, just to see Hermione walk around naked ... meh ...