Like your friend. If i like a scene while playing I´m going for it, save the game and pick up the game later on. It happend to me that I go off on a scene and later tryed to pick the game on agian and was immidently aroused agian and have to wait agian to play on. Still i save all good scenes...
I never understand why RPG Maker games are so liked. I guess it´s easy to use for dev (just guessing I know shit about making games).
Renpy is for me easy to use.
Most people don´t want to know the truth and very often it's hard to make out what is true and what not.
For me sometimes it is better to not ask and not know :)
Paywalls are never good, no matter what game we are talking. Hiding major or less major contant behind a paywall which may contain some backround strings for the story is a big no, no.
Also for other game is a paywall which split playerbases just shit and helps to doom the game.
For 95% not. If it´s a pure female MC game I skip it usual. If it is like a male MC game, where you see or play some parts of the sight of one of the females it is ok, if it don´t take large bits of the game.