May mean people are more focused on the numbers than the actual effects. Or are failing/passing checks for other reasons and blaming the stats. I can lower confidence and happiness to min, max out drunkeness, and still win at the socker challange 9 times out of 10. I think it might have to do with Commano trait distracting the boys, or perhaps the Gamine trait. In my playthrough, a lot of checks seem nearly impossible to lose even after changing stats in an attempt to do so.It's something I'll have to look into. Despite stats being much more forgiving in this update, for some reason the complaints are much stronger than usual.
Quick request: can you provide a mechanism for going into the dev console on Android?