One of the best games out there but FFS the Seasons AND Episodes AND Versioning AND SE's AND Save Your Game State AND Import Your Save grindfest is hands down the biggest CF I have ever seen.
Agree to disagree. The amount of content in the game almost requires divisions like seasons and episodes. Versioning makes sense: episode = first number; release within the episode = second number; it's pretty straightforward to me.
Saving your game state seems fine to me also: it's not dissimilar to a story divided into multiple films (like
The Lord of the Rings or
Kill Bill). Obviously, the characters continue where they left off in the last film; in the same way, characters here continue in Season 2 where they left off in Season 1. Importing your saves is the way to continue (including unlocked gallery, if you want to keep progress with women going forward, etc.).
I will definitely concede that setting the game up (downloading multiple parts, having to unpack multiple parts, etc.) is a little work, but only a little. Otherwise, I have no idea what you mean by "grindfest" — there is literally no grinding in this game . . . at all.