I definately agree that bugs seem to be the biggest issue, but its a game in the middle of development, and I've played plenty that are FAR FAR worse in that department than this one.
But still, without the guide and the universal renpy mod, I still would have missed a lot of the content that I actually WANT to see, that others don't like. I feel like the pretty vanilla Kari/Lois path is pretty easy to stick to unless you want more.