I'd like to start by saying that I enjoy the game so far, and I'm looking forward to the Axel/Dom route.
That said, I did find the conversation with Tai at the start of the route a little dense. To be clear, I saw your response to Watery Zen, and my comment doesn't concern the structure of the route - I'm totally fine setting things up in the first few days. I just found my attention lapsing a bit during the conversation. Obviously Tai is a loquacious character, and I wouldn't want you to change that, but perhaps a couple more lines of MC's thoughts or observations somewhere in the middle could break things up a bit.
To finish up the comment, this was my first time playing since the UI update, and things look really nice!