Ayy, thank you very much for the kind words! I'm glad the branching paths worked out. I worried that they may overcomplicate things. I'm also quite glad that the artwork worked out.
As for the potential best ending, it does exist... sort of. One of the far simpler endings involves you settling in the apartment complex toward the end, but the specific ending text you get in an ending changes depending on how much you see and how much new info you learn. By that logic, there theoretically is an ending like that, but you'd have to take a specific path to get it. Heck, it may not really be possible with the way I have everything routed out; I'd have to experiment with what is set up.