http://www.kinkoid.com/an-update-full-of-affection/

Well, they do seem to want to fix the affection issue. You could argue that they want to do it in a hard easy to fuck-up way, but then I do understand the dev ideas behind why they would rather do it this way, than just make affection upgrading cheaper again. (Talked with Kaos on the discord about this).

Only question is how long it will take them to implement those ideas.