Is battle rank, grinding penalties, and timed quests still a thing?

[Paladin Larec]

I remember one thing that kept me from beating Frontier 1/2 and Romancing Saga 3 were the ways enemies level up alongside you, courtesy of the battle rank system. Previews of this game don't mention it, so is it still a thing?

Also, Minstrel song on PS2 filtered me hard by locking off most of the game's quests because I didn't properly manage my time while grinding (which I suppose I shouldn't have done anyway) and closed events before I could even get to them. Does this game do that as well?

It looks amazing and I want to play it, but those two features turned me off from Saga before.

[Gray Riders]

Battle Rank: Yes, though it's now visible in-game. There's an interview with Famitsu (https://www.famitsu.com/article/202408/14320 though Steam seems to think this article might be dangerous) that seems to say that it's based more off event completion, with winning battles having a smaller effect. Japanese text:
逃げても戦闘勝利回数にカウントされませんので、いくら逃げても大丈夫です。ただ、退却を選ぶとBPが減らされますし、退却を繰り返しても成長はしないので、ボス戦では苦労するでしょう。本作では“どれだけイベントをこなしたか”を敵の強さ決めの基本にしつつ、戦闘勝利回数を少し加味しています。ですので、オリジナル版に比べて“詰み”は起きにくいと思います。レベリングのようなこともできますし。

Google Translate:
"Even if you run away, it won't count towards your battle victories, so it's okay to run away as much as you like. However, if you choose to retreat, your BP will decrease, and you won't grow even if you retreat repeatedly, so you'll have a hard time in boss battles. In this game, the strength of enemies is determined based on "how many events you've completed," with a small amount of battle victories taken into account. Therefore, I think it's less likely to get "stuck" than in the original version. You can also do things like leveling."

Timed quests: Unlike Minstrel Song, fighting too many battles didn't lock off events in the original RS2. Events can be failed (or altered but still completeable) if you skip generations in the middle of them.

In general, though, the remake seems like it's being made much more user-friendly with the goal of a broader audience so even those might be changed somehow--it already looks like they're making it a lot harder to lock yourself out of equipment upgrades.

[Paladin Larec]

Oh, this is good news then. I'll have to get it. Thanks!