The updated story doesn't really make a lot of sense.
People have infrastructure built around the numen to the point where the train system only interfaces with an urban area via a singular numan? Why are there people considering kicking them out? If she goes on strike, the whole train system becomes useless.
Then the designs are less cartoony, which would indicate a greater deal of seriousness, but it feels like they highlight how the setting is shearing apart at the tonal fault lines presented.