To anyone that hopped the fuck out at the cooking """mini-game""" (seriously, how do you make a "match x" mini-game unintuitive and slow; the lack of those qualities is usually the reason they're tolerated or even good elsewhere), you can use Universal RenPy Mod to flip a variable called " persistent.kitchen_minigame_done " to true and it seems to skip it, even on reload.
About your second spoiler, at least the characters kept saying how it makes no sense, which is good lampshading. It made things a lot more bearable for me, otherwise I would have been upset at reading that nonsense.
If everything is new why the hell you need to parasitize on fame of original game? Create new name and good luck, but no... Don't understand that logic.