I don't consider that a problem. When I first witnessed a base camp, I feared these interruptions might be as exhausting as in Three Houses, but chapter 4 looks like there will be much less management within the base. I also wouldn't want to have to get to know everyone again in a drawn out procedure. Neither is it an issue that having played Three Houses before is highly recommended, because this is a Warriors game that is specifically based on Three Houses, so it should be self-explanatory who the target audience is.

Odd story is the name of the game in Nintendo Warriors games, so rather than complaining about some weird pacing, appreciate that the game gets fast to the point of telling its alternate storyline to Three Houses by using the gap between the timeskip of the game it's based on.

It took me a bit to get used to the gameplay mechanics after having played so much of the first Fire Emblem Warriors, but it's all coming together. I hope they tied this whole project nicely together with a new game plus where you get free access to all battles after having cleared all (presumably three) routes of the game.

Lastly, I think the whole overkill of "choose pretty much any class for any character" is much more suited to the nature of a Warriors game than a Fire Emblem game. I strongly prefer the FE games where characters have greatly limited class options, simply because I think the way of fighting they've chosen is supposed to tie into their personality as a whole.

All this is to say that I am more hyped for the game after playing its demo. S-ranks for battles are also back, which were sorely missing in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

In order to understand your spoiler event of Three Houses, you have to have picked the approriate route in the game. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

Byleth no longer being a teacher in Three Hopes is why I've called this an alternate storyline, but it would probably be more accurate to call it an alternative Fodlan universe or something along these lines. You absolutely shouldn't expect Three Hopes to be an extension of Three Houses, because it's going to be a lot like Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity which did its own thing too and therefore ultimately did not tie in with Breath of the Wild's story like originally believed.

So if you place that much importance on the world and characters of Three Houses, then it's very likely that you will be disappointed by how the story in Three Hopes plays out and the whole game will feel like a soured experience. While it would be fair to assume that the characters stay largely intact in Three Hopes, the world's events of Three Houses and Three Hopes will be very disconnected. Three Hopes isn't a telling of the story of what happened during Three Houses' timeskip, but rather just works with the original premise and ultimately tells a whole different story that will be often contradicted by what happened in Three Houses. At least that's how I imagine it will play out.

So when it comes to your expectations specifically, I would highly recommend that you hold off from buying until other players have been able to give a general overview of the entirety of the story in Three Hopes, because the game might very well divert even farther from Three Houses than what could be seen in its demo.

Still anticipating a lot of glitches after the Paper Mario port.

I wish the NES, SNES and N64 games were available as separate purchase.