That's one solution. Unfortunately for me story is the only thing in GFL2 I still have any hope for, if I start skipping that there's no reason to even boot the damn thing.

As for catching up with CN, it actually makes me more worried than hopeful. There's been more and more localisation issues since they sped up the global schedule (both in story segments and general UI) and that's with localisation team working on stuff that's already finished in Chinese. There's no guarantee they'll have more time for proper translation and QA when working on things that are still in progress.

They had more than a year to plan things out and catch us up in a reasonable way, instead they chose the dartboard approach, miscommunication and willingness to do things haphazardly just to push them out. I might be overly pessimistic but MICA hasn't shown they're able to handle this game without screwing up. It would be cool if they can prove me wrong but at this point any good will is just gone, I need proof.