I loved the slow text crawl. I'm not even joking. After falling in love with Ace Attorney slow moving text is weirdly comforting and even in other games I let it play out slowly.
That's why I thought the complaints about slow text speed in GTI was silly. It seemed to me that the majority of those complaining could care less about focusing on the story and that they just wanted to skip through it, even though in reality the text speed wasn't nearly as slow as some of the other games I've played. (Like Ys Book I and II where what would be a four minute cutscene ending if you could skip the text is always least ten minutes due to the inability to speed up the text at any point in the game, and since the ending has a ton of text the super slow text speed makes it frustrating to watch when you've completed the game many times already. GTI's text speed was much faster in comparison.) Still, the ability to speed up the text returns, so if those people want to ignore the story entirely because it isn't Sky then they can do so, even though it seems like they'll miss out from what we know so far. That being said if I played through Explorers again I'd likely want to skip everything too, so maybe it is helpful to have that option...
What I REALLY want to know is if they'll allow multiple jobs at once in the same dungeon again. That was one of the few issues I had with GTI.