I have been playing this new version (1.47) on an ARM based Chromebook, and apart from the 'flirting with teachers' where she gets Lockhart's autograph crashing the game every time, no matter which option is chosen, and the RenPy error screen appearing when I ask Cho who is knocking, it is much more stabil this time around. - I just tried 1.47.1 on my PC and the Lockhart event still crashes the game, but the Cho issue seems to be solved (at least in the Win version).
However they are stretching the RenPy engine to it's limits; on the Chromebook I have had dialog boxes be on top of each other, which is kind of impressive for an engine that can't multitask, skipping through the text in 1.47 is very choppy compared to 1.46.1 - if they don't introduce images to go with the all the public requests, I hope they reintroduce the 'here's your points, now FO' button.
As for the new interface, it's fine with a mouse, I imagine it's better with a touchscreen, but with a trackpad it is more cumbersome and I miss being able to see the status of the girls and the dedicated 'work button' in the top corner.
I must say, after 8 years in the making of a mod that is one part quality of life update and one part add-on, it feels underwhelming. If someone made a "bronze mod" of the original, making the books be a "buy it and you have read it" kind of thing and maybe adding more pictures to the events, we would have something greater than both the original and the silver mod... as it is now, the original is a slog to get through and the silver mod is a lot of great ideas with very little follow through.
