Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into the progression for that part of Maria's story. But I should note that the reason Maria did that was to make sure she was doing it for herself. She wanted to be free to make her own decision, and that was to be with the player. She always enjoyed the others being around, it wasn't about the harem.
Ok sorry maybe I went a bit headcannony with my understanding of Maria. You can look into development but I don't think there's much of a point now; I just think it would've been far better to have understood her process back then. I also still can't understand why Maria thought she couldn't make the decision on her own and unless I'm forgetting something (likely lol) I don't think we ever got an explanation for that.
I see you've released another update glad to see you progressing. Hope you continue on to eventual completion this is easily the best h-game I've played and the worldbuilding and character writing is some of my favorite in fiction.