Thanks!
That'd probably be somewhere between 3 and 5 months, I'd say. Definitely not an unattractive idea but not something I'll do anytime soon.
There were and yes, it would be nice to see them, but you're right that they are "left out" for the sake of brevity. The game's pace is already rather slow (comparatively) and actually showing all the (mostly non-consequential) transition scenes would slow it down even more unnecessarily. In fact, I'm already showing more scenes than I "should", given the game's time scale.
So yeah, while I'd like to show more of the transition scenes (which I really do, cause some of them could be fun), I can't realistically do that. Glad you understand that. :)