I mean, listening to Patreon subscribers is partially to blame for the delay in the tech update. Summertime Saga isn't really a game so much as it is a dozen visual novels of varying quality that the player is free to bounce between as they please, all crudely stapled together into a single buggy package. Letting the patrons guide development has built up technical debt, and that focus on stories rather than gameplay systems is why the whole thing now needs to be re-coded from scratch.
The dating system should have been implemented much earlier, which would have allowed character updates to flow through it and could have let us get small scenes for the less-popular girls alongside the big updates for the poll-winners. Judith could be the "easy lay" who only needs a few scenes to get to the good stuff while more complex characters like Roxxy or Eve would take longer. I like Judith and I think the little we've got with her so far is pretty hot, but I'm not sure I want to spend an entire update with her and her various family members.