To your first point that's fair. I didn't convey it in my explanation, but the Suguha/Sinon endings I mentioned just assumes that's the ending result if Kirito's pervert bar isn't at 100%. So it's just a simple epilogue thing that happens with Suguha and Sinon. I didn't really mention it with the intention of like Kirito ends up with Suguha but denies Sinon, or vice versa denies Suguha but ends up with Sinon. So yeah I do agree it'll all be wrapped up in one general direction, so the direction I was going for was the unknowing cuck/bad ending (technically both endings are bad for Kirito, but I mention bad in the context of the player I guess).
In regards to your second point, that scenario is possible/likely to happen. I'm not putting too much stakes in what the epilogue/ending will look like. Most of my thoughts with Suguha/Sinon, had more to do with that the Q&A implies that Suguha and Sinon won't be screwed over, because they can't be screwed over if Inoda is involved. Inoda being involved probably means the six council and Sugou getting defeated, so Suguha and Sinon being taken away seems less likely. It was only brought up for conversation's sake that Inoda was going to get involved with the six council plot, but there wasn't any confirmination until now.
Honestly I'm wondering where the CG set is too.idk why i didn't think of that but i think i will wait for the end of june like you. I am scared that the mid may update will set me up for disappointment.. so yeah think i will do the same as you (but no forum for me for 6 weeks)
And talking about that, for me i think the mid may update will not have enough content and people will complain and it will stress him more than needed.. i was hoping that he would release a CG set instead and just post the FULL update at the end of june but meh it's his decision so i hope it's going to be good
But yeah, based off what Fujino seems to have described with the mid-May update, I'm expecting it to be really small, so I'd rather just skip it and wait for June. So if the next few progress reports don't change my impression on the mid-May update, I'm going to say bye for 6 weeks and pop back at the end of June rofl.
I also agree that I'd rather just have the FULL update in June versus a mini update. The incomplete updates then adding the extra CG 2 - 7 days later hasn't been something I've been enjoying lately, so I think just waiting for the more complete updates will probably be more rewarding.
