Originally Posted by paraphin

and on top of all that, blooming was postponed until... next week? next month?
wasn't that "awesome update" all about blooming? xD
in fact we waited what? 10h? 12? for just the new event...

If you want to ignore the other added features including second affection unlocking and crafting, then sure; the update was "just" about the new event.

To forestall anyone being tempted to say, "but we can't level the secondary affection without gifts", you're wrong. Craft the 5%/10% universal ones from the regular gifts and use those; at least two people that I know of have done this already and maxed 2 girls.

Don't have enough regular gifts to craft? Well, now you have something else to do: run the Searching for Presents map(s).

It's not the Holy Grail of updates, granted, but I think a few people here are just trying to be disappointed; even if Blooming (2nd evo) went live yesterday it's not like anyone was in a position to evolve anyone since no one had the mats.