The worst of all is that you dont really ever know if anything in this game is a bug or works as intended
EXACTLY.
God I wish I could give you more likes for that. Lol.
Dude, I've sat here and reloaded saves, looked around areas, skipped time, etc. All because I didn't know what the hell was going on with quests.....and most of the time, they just seem to not load right? Like they don't actually take into account you skipped time or what have you, to get to the next part. Or they lag in realizing you did.
I've even had quests where I didn't finish an objective, it skipped it, made me proceed, but was still giving me GPS for the prior objective. So I had to go into my journal constantly and switch it. Lol.
One of the missions with Wakako, I couldn't talk to her because it's bugged and glitched. But you can skip that part of the quest by going into a shop and doing the next step. I found that randomly on some random site where someone else had the same issue too.