Day 1. Hopefully, they improve with respect to maps and story. 3 Houses having 4 routes and only the Blue Lions route felt really good. Everything else felt more like a side route IMO. The Golden Deer and Empire routes felt really underused and didn't live up to their potential. The church and golden deer routes felt like copy and paste of each other essentially.
Hopefully, they focus it so it is one path in the main story.
after midway through your first run, there is *zero* reason to do it lmao
I mean technically speaking the two get a + in charisma rating. Which if you are playing maddening is great for Byleth.
But lets be honest 97% of the people here are playing on hard at the very most. In which case I agree it is pointless. As long as you got the dancer class there was nothing else that you NEEDED to do. (Hell even the meals and all that other stuff didn't effect too much iirc)