I agree with you. Even for me, it was becoming increasingly hard to keep everything under control internally. I think the hard mode deserves its own gameplay rather than being an add-on.
I must say that I'm already planning how to bring the exclusive hard mode shop to the normal/easy mode, as it's currently only available in the Patreon version.
We'll have all the girls back in future versions. The next ones will be Alina and Myra, whom I have in mind to make some subtle physical changes to; and, as with Anna/Yuna's underwear, we'll decide together on Patreon (with all the patrons, though).
So it would be something like this:
- Soon = Alina/Myra and Arwen
- Later = Maria/Tali
- Future = Enya, Suna, Natsuki, Patricia...
In some girls, their story will be slightly changed, as will their personality (especially Alina and Natsuki).
It was ruled out, but now that I want to do things right, I'm going to bring in new secondary girls when the beach and the mine are finally available.
Also, I've been thinking for a long time about making Naluna a secondary girl, as I think she has the potential to be one. We'll see what happens in the future 🧐