[VN thoughts: Charage and heroine perspectives]

You're right basically, knowing inner thoughts of a person is easiest way to know and symphatize with this character.

But consider this:
Charage are usually 'put yourself in' stories. That's why we have such a bland protagonists, obviously. But if you want to have that immersion into game/vn/story, you cannot show inner thoughts of any other characters than protagonists. It's immersion breaking because protagonists does not know what other characters are thinking.

Switching perspectives is a good thing and it suits story driven VNs/books/anything. It's a simple yet strong writting tool. But when it comes to charage, where immersion is really important, it's just of putting. And lazy.
Why lazy? Well, when comes to 'put yourself in charage' writter must show heroines and other characters interesting by their dialogues, actions and interactions. Which is sometimes very hard to do. Going into their heads is lazy, it's like cheating. It's basically the same type of 'tool' as "protagonists is secretly reading heroines' diary and get to know what she thinks". Both are shitty, both are lazy.

[Baldr Heart]

What can you say about gameplay? Is it hard, is it complicated?

[Killing the ellipsis (“...”) in VN translations]

While I agree about almost everything written in this post, I just feel like one, important thing was omitted.
It's all about proffesional editing of text. Also - in probably most of the cases it doesn't even matter if ellipsis is cut.
But.
There is something I used to call 'melody' of dialogues.

Just look here:

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Original: He walked down the street, a song in his heart...
Revised: He walked down the street, a song in his heart.

Original: There’s nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day...
Revised: There’s nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day.

These are NOT the same sentences. Why?
It's simple. If sentence is written with a single dot at the end, it sounds in your head, while you're reading it, with fast paced, 'strict' voice. But if you add ellipsis, it's no longer the same. Fast paced voice is gone, and you have kind of melancholic and/or bored voice in your head. Melody of this sentence is going lower in tones and longer in sounds near the end of that sentence. It's important in dialogues to keep that, because otherwise (especially in vns, when we have no narrator telling us things like 'he sound bored when he said that') we would not know how this dialogue suposed to look.

To emphasize I'll write down some improvised dialogue.

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A: We have a lot of work to do.
B: Yes, I know.
A: Let's start with math.
B: Fine, I'll go prepare books.

It's not hard to believe that those characters have 'their shit together' and without delay they're starting to work.
But look at this:

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A: We have a lot of work to do...
B: Yes, I know.
A: Let's start with math...
B: Fine, I'll go prepare books.

But here it's impossible to think that of character A. He sounds lazy, sounds bored, sounds like he don't want to do it. ("sounds" of course, in your head, while reading)

I believe same thing was here:

21 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

Welp, guess I can scratch this one off my list of planned editing-related blog posts... I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have done as good a job anyway. Nice work!

Fred added that ellipsis just to exagerate that sentence, to make it sound differently, sound less bright, less strict, more lazy. Am I right?

So - it's important to keep ellipsis at the end oif sentences in dialogues, because they're dictates the rhytm and melody of voices.