Maybe what’s missing in regards to the “dating sim stat” area is some indication in the “progress indicator menu”. It tells you what to do next, but maybe it could give you information on how your trust/affection is going? Even if just a general descriptor rather than a number.
Also: As it stands, does Vera’s submission stat, which is unique to her, even do anything? Her content seems pretty linear at the moment and the submission stat is feeling vestigial of a different earlier plan where you would shape the MC’s relation to her but got scrapped in favour of having the MC be unambiguously and decidedly opposed to the concept of having an actual slave