While the bugs are a big irritating factor, no question there, you can very easily avoid the grind for those that gnash their teeth at it. Thanks to Ballzak's guide and using Save Editor (Which the how to is included in said guide) you can avoid practically all the grindy bits of the game. All relationship values maxed, easy money (if you aren't aware of the money easter egg), ability/endurance mastery, days worked at chosen part-time job edits, even day and week fixes. Starting a new game on Version 1.0 (staying away from 1.1 cause of all the bugs) I completed everything in just a few hours. Grind is entirely avoidable.
Not to mention Firebane's mod to help keep track of everything.
Hope everything gets fixed come the 1.2 update. This is probably my favorite adult game featured on this site so I hope that BoN can bounce back from these errors.