I've been tracking the story component of the new update on the github, and there will be spoilers further down the line.
In this update, we'll be helping Elise and her mom make friends, roughly speaking. And her mom is, roughly speaking, one of Alpha Corp's bigwigs. Practically one of the heads or something. And in the end, when we reconcile them, our help again goes unnoticed and we are again not thanked in any way, not to mention the fact that we don't take off our collar in gratitude to such important members of the corporation. Sad... =[