thank god for that! LOL, i've put in too much work now to just abandon my playthrough but i'm such a perfectionist that i totally would've restarted by now if i didn't know i could go back and do VN mode (and thank youuuu for that option bc this is great but the grind would kill me replay-wise lol)
although ngl, VN mode doesn't help fully with the replay-ability. you still have to grind and pick all the individual buildings to claim and that part is super annoying. the battles literally did not bother me LOL so i think VN mode might've benefitted from skipping both (or having options to auto-claim stuff without having to individually auto-fill each type of mission. though i know thats not easy to code, so i get why you didn't do that)