That would be a valid point,
if this were a completed project. It's not.
Furthermore, you used the key word for the artwork and its progress -
commissioned.
The art is being done by a third party, who is not solely dedicated to this game, and it all takes time.
Go full Game "journalist" mode?
Mate, you've been in that mode the entire time you've been posting in here.
Nobody "bitches" about valid things. If it's genuinely valid, then it's not bitching, it's criticism.
You bitching about "RPGM mechanics" is not criticism of any sort, just you bitching about something you don't like, and didn't like two years ago either.
I don't.
I pretty much never have with any CRPG and it wasn't me who said anything of the sort... Which just goes to show you really are always in Game "Journalist" Mode. Just play the game, make your choices as you see fit, and live with the consequences.
Well that's a you problem.
These same mechanics that you don't see the point in, just happen to be the ones you didn't like two years ago, and will continue to bitch about them until you're blue in the face... If you're not seeing the real problem here, it's located in two seperate places.
1 - Between the chair and keyboard
2 - In the mirror
Basically everyone else playing this isn't phased by those things you dislike and just play the game.
Oh how gracious of you.
Truly, you show the height of magnaminity
I don't care about them in this game, because this isn't a porn-focused game, and the sex scenes were already so well written.
Plus, I have a fully functioning imagination that allows me to conjure up the imagery based upon the descriptive information of the characters, and the text of the scene.