Thank you for your kind and detailed review! You made my day!!
I worried that the story up until this point wouldn't be romantic enough, so I'm glad you consider it a strength! (Chapter 2 of both routes has a lot of fluff coming.)
It was actually see the this type of discourse on social media that inspired me to write this story. A lot of the Chirper posts that attack Ayla in the game are, unfortunately, directly reworded from actual posts I've seen on X.
I hope you look forward to the next update!