What is up with all these new posters hating on the update?
Happens all the time.
No real clue what certain people are looking for. Most of the short posts feels like it's people who just skip the story, which I mean you're getting basically nothing out of every update at that point. If they do read it and dislike the story, then that's fair, but other than some hiccups and issues here and there, the story is overall going along in a reasonable manner. It could definitely be better, but it's passable. If the people dislike the gameplay, it is a little amusing because from beginning until now, it's been a walking simulator with some CG hunting. The CG hunting was more common in part 1, and the story took more focus for part 2.
One of the amusing things from some people's posts though is that people reference how they miss the CG hunting from part 1, but this update had a pretty fun amount of CG hunting in the FOG underground area. And lore hunting (if you decided to go look for some of it) in the IRL. You could mess with Alice's CG on if she loses her virginity to Fukushi or Klein, and you could get a little extra lore about the construction if you go behind the apartment building.