From what I gather they replaced high res cutscenes with lower res ones.
Do you have any basis to assume that same people the complain about grind here do grind in MMOs?
Did you consider that games that focus on combat probably do it fuck ton better than smut game that people play to fap ?
Maybe those games are worth replaying and this one is not?
But to begin with defending resetting progress is probably the dumbest hill to defend.
Seriously.
Guys - most of us are not here for ~the immersive game play~ and while its fine that you might be, it's also weird that you think this is somehow the norm for games where the primary goal is to get off, and then go do something else.