Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I think I can understand your potential concern as a developer; charge a lot for the whole game up front and people talk about how steep the price is for so little content, but charge by the episode and people get upset because they feel the first price should cover the whole thing.
As for the optional content, I did play quite a bit of it, but you're so good at the story telling that the side quests, for me at least, feel.... I don't know.... filler maybe? At least at this stage of the story, Snowdrop and Lin seem like they're there just so MC's got somebody to sex. Lin has a very Jenny feel to her.