Yeah I know what you mean. There were a lot of firsts for me in this update (level system, balancing, NPC on NPC action). Save / load systems are something I have no experience with either, I didn't wanna add more to the plate.
I understand and have felt the need for it myself as well though, I'll probably be trying soon for sure.
Thats fair it was more or so a question if you will add a way to save progress since Ellen would take a while to capture the legit way since shes such a high level and getting to that level has to be done in one go but no hurry since you're working on a lot of other games that dont need a save/load system, also is XP gained when using the holds?