I have yet to see why 31-35 needed to be rewritten and why the story couldn't have just used that time and effort to progress the story as it was. If he really wanted to do the 3P thing he could just bring it up again later and go through with it instead of erasing the established story, and instead going off on this boring tangent with an entirely new character.
I don't get it. The reasoning given for the rewrite was to make it more erotic, but immediate 3P aside (which again, the time spent doing this stupid rewrite could've been used to insert one later,) the rest of it has felt like a much more boring milquetoast slice of life thing. The original writing was headed in a far more erotic direction so the reasoning doesn't even make sense. If that was the goal, they failed spectacularly.
Beyond that, characters' actions and behaviors don't even make sense anymore. It feels random, a lot of personality was lost in the rewrite. The new ones are so disjointed with the rest of the pre-31 chapters that it's as if I'm not even reading the same manga.
Couldn't possibly care less about this whole baseball childhood friend backstory. I hope the world's most uninteresting childhood friend gets knocked into a coma with a baseball.