I dislike the art direction of the new H scenes. I still love the game though, the characters and writing are the best I've seen on here. It's a testament to the quality of the world building that I can pass the history exams without cheating lol
Unfortunately our current lead artist will be leaving at some point in the relatively-near future, meaning that the change in art will be inevitable then.
To make it feel more seamless (especially for new players) we've decided that the old artworks, which were already going to be reworked, would be mainly reworked by the new artist so as to turn Chapter 1 into a mix of their two styles, making players prepared to when in Chapter 2 it will inevitably only feature the new artist's style.
Not every single art from previous updates will be reworked. By "old art" we mean art from 2020-2021, when the game had just started and our current lead artist wasn't as experienced as he is today.
As a matter of fact with 1.8 we're mostly done with reworks besides very few things like backgrounds or Evelyn's stuff (those artworks are also from that 2020-2021 timeframe) which we have decided not to rework until we rework her entire route.