Woah, thanks for the in-depth review! I really appreaciate these kind of reviews since it helps me a lot xD
Basically all of the coding/programming improvements are true, I'm currently working on a complete overhaul for the game's UI, mechanics, maps, and stuff for 2025. Most of these points are things that I wanna get fixed by then.
As for Vanessa (Alice's mom), for now she's just a ghost character, she's somewhat important so I thought it was better/coherent to have her mentioned in certain events in the story where's is important to do so, so I don't have to retcon her into previous events.
And I'll be trying to fix the bugs that you mentioned too, coding isn't really my forte so I'll see what I can do.
Anyways, thanks fro the feedback, helps me to get a better insight of what the players think of the current state of the game... apparently some of the changes I wanted to make are really necessary xD