nothing seems to be working, this is what my screen looks like. the yes option is just blanked out.
It may take a while for us to identify the problem, but we're working on another workaround. In the meantime, what we can suggest for now is that you delete your save file again, necessarily through the in-game SETTINGS menu, then go through the previous stories without turning any kinks on, just to eliminate the possibility of other issues being the cause.
I figured I share this here as it was figured out in the discord, but if you bookmark a previous story and attempt to start "Lovebird", It'll ask you if you want to start a new story when you have the other story bookmarked, and you can start it from that popup.
This workaround seems to totally fix the issue for now, and wont need to be repeated.