Eh, I didn't really have that much of problem with the influence points since I just put the MCs influence to an absurdly high amount using the Universal Ren'py mod.
But playing the most recent update the ladies seem to have chilled out with that stuff compared to the early game. For some...
I'm kind of confused as to why that image even needs to be the first thing people see when loading the game/why isn't it just a general screenshot of the women looking sexy or something.