I see that people are quite disappointed in this 0.55 update, I myself also expected more but I think it wasn't bad at all. Not counting the plot of council stuff (which I mostly don't understand them much and skipped most of them myself), we still get like 4 Asuna scenes, 2(3) Alice scenes, 1 Sugu (Leafa scene), 1 Kyoko scene, 1 new main menu CG if you also want to count that (and maybe more or less that I miss?). I think it's great for about 1 month(ish) work (and I think some time were lost on that maze which is quite short for the big maze like that lol)
Maybe the main reason is that fans were expect more and more of hot scenes with the main girl which is Asuna x Inoda, but on this update we get 2 of Asuna scenes with Kirito which were quite lame but it suits him and story purpose I guess

(Imagine if 4 Asuna scenes were all with Inoda lol)
But with Alice get less content or not at all in future updates (which I have no idea if there are any fans rooting for her or not?), plot driven forward, Asuna kinda completely succumbed to Inoda's cock already, I hope we will see more and more Asuna x Inoda scenes in each future updates