There probably has to be 24 hours of inactivity before it's eligible to start auto-collecting, given the previous limitation.
I've been collecting interest for nearly two weeks and it's only made me as much as four or five comments would have, I think, so I don't think this is a drastic move.
I like it as long as there are repeatable events and scenes, and thus you get to choose the order in which things happen on any given day, or you have the choice to favour certain characters over others.
I was averaging about 70 coins per day. I got helped by that 150 coin give gift, so that took a couple days off.
I probably could have earned it faster, but I didn't want to just spam replies, I was posting actual responses to stuff I had at least a passing interest in.
Solo male protagonist
I don't even make multiple characters when playing the Sims, I just make a single character and play the whole game using that character. Why would I go to a second person?
Most of the companies collapsing are ones I dislike anyway, but unfortunately they're taking out smaller decent companies as collateral damage, like Arkane Studios
While I do like the 'harem' aspect that some games go for with their characters' interactions with the MC, where after some convincing she just becomes completely open, warm and sexual towards you, something is lost there when it happens. Like the popular girl who wouldn't give you the time of...