I like the extra stats thing actually having an effect. you guys say that is part of the game already but it must be super hidden or something... unless it was added in the 1.3 delay version. it is good you guys did mention still working on the game because I thought totally gave up on it XD
lastly, i think if anything the story needs the regular scenes to have more writing with more emotional value attached to them, since every scene I always feel either rushed or something was missing. I see there was effort to make us feel emotionally attached, but the thing with the parents was just thrown in for like one scene, barely talked about much again. The ex-boyfriend thing wasn't really touched upon much outside the fact that we know the MC had an ex-boyfriend and the relationship didn't end well. We get just a lot of basic background info but nothing is really getting as in depth as it should.
Even with the boyfriend, the most emotional route with has only so far been the base boyfriend route. while the rest has been just not as fleshed out feeling. Actually now that I think about it, I feel the base boyfriend route had the best writing and story overall compared to all the other.
anyway, I'm sure you guys got a lot of complaints about random certain stuff but that's mostly because people just want to see the game become something better. I really suggest focus on the writing more since write now it doesn't feel like a lot of heart was put into it. There is a game on here called The Pretender's Guild, it is free and I must say the writing there I could feel so emotionally attached to each character.