Oh, "not sure if I can make it in time for Friday in-game.", so it’s another update with just 1 in-game day. Honestly, it’s disappointing, not because it’s a short update, but because I’m already tired of the quarantine arc. It’s been dragged out too long, and I already want us to move on to the events in the main menu.
Considering that Thursday will probably be fog again, it’s even sadder because we’ve already spent most of the game watching Asuna’s fall. Now scenes with her in fog don’t really make sense anymore since she’s already completely ready for anything there. Unless Inoda tries something with Yui or there are scenes with other girls.
You could say that even in irl she’s already doing almost everything, but there are still a couple more stages left for her development. That’s the problem with this dragged-out quarantine arc. All her development there feels devalued because as long as she’s there, she’ll do whatever Inoda says. When she returns, scenes in irl will be more interesting, at least because there could be some moral conflict like “I can’t do this anymore, the quarantine is over, I should resist.”
Maybe when Fujino planned this arc, he didn’t fully realize how much he would stretch it out. In the game itself, days pass quickly, and it might have seemed like two weeks would go by unnoticed. But when updates come out once a month or even every few months, and the update may cover not 3 in-game days, but just 1-2, it becomes a problem.