No one. No short stories and no side stories, please.
Don't waste your time and focus on moving the main storyline forward.
I understand where you guys are coming from, and I don't want to speak for the author or anything, but we should consider this:
1) He said he does the writing & coding at his day job whereas he does the rendering at home.
2) We know rendering always takes up majority of VN development (usually, anyways), but we also know these short stories are very, very modestly rendered (unless plans have changed). So, the writing would probably make up most of the work for these short stories.
3) On top of that, the writing itself for the short stories is usually vastly simplified compared to the main game (no large decision trees, etc.).
Considering all that, this might just be spare time at his work that wouldn't have been spent working on the game anyways (assuming the writing for the main game is making good time, which it sounds like it is and the rendering is the bottleneck).
He hasn't said he plans on expanding the nature of short stories (decision trees & render count), so I don't see why we should worry too much, personally.
Sorry to ping you
NeonGhosts, but can you comment on any of this? Are short stories changing in scope? Do you think it will interfere w/ the main game's progress?
We do know some things about her. She spends all her time in a lesbian gym when she isn't installing hot tubs. We also know that she beat a bitch in the octagon even though said bitch had already broken her arm. If Guy needs a bodyguard he could probably do worse, but the jury's really out on girlfriend material
I think she said it was an all-girls gym, not a lesbian one
But, hey, wishes come true in porn VNs sometimes