There's no plans to add any new recruitable characters until 1.0. Also these sorts of suggestions/discussions/bug reports are better done at discord honestly
RPG and management are somewhat different genres even though Strive is a mix of both. Other than that, I suppose you reference to romance as in more of dating/daily life/spending time together kind of thing, which doesn't really feel like the stuff I'm interested in making. Arguably it could make that even more interesting in making but it would make me feel very out of my place. My style is more of presenting some events which unfold character's personality, then reward the player with the scene which was what I consider to be the 'romance' in first placee.
That's an interesting question and when I think about it, I'm not sure I'd be able to separate the two. Many of sexual encounters are usually romantic in nature and when I think about romance with no sex (especially in fantasy setting) I feel like it sounds very female audience centered. And then both strive games have very strong gameplay leaning in first place so the relationship thing is sorta secondary there.
Automagic weapon seems a bit like a stretch but act 4 will have a bit more on technological advancement, not on the level of big sci-fi/modern world though
For the lore specific reason: she's taught herself out of it. I guess I should make her an exception inside of mansion as well. As for the global setting you can turn it off in globalsettings file.
You can open save data in any text editor and edit it manually. If you use json parser you can get a clear picture on what to edit/replace on it. If your version is fairly recent it should work more or less smoothly, if not you'd have to be more cautious with your edits. Also I can recommend you feeding your save data to chatgpt asking it to work it out for you, can save you a lot of tedious work but you better back your saves up before editing them regardless.
