Well, Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming out in 2018 which I assume will be their focus until that gets settled. I wouldn't expect it to be soon but then again things may change and we could be surprised.
Should be located inside the "ranks" table and called "credits". By editing this it will change the amount given per 15 minutes. Never really used the Alaska edit of Plus, but I'd assume they didn't remove that feature? If they did then I'd look at a different version of Plus that has it and add...
No one should be normal though in all honesty. If everyone was normal and the same then where's the fun in that? Everybody's different and has different ways of dealing with stress or depression and other such things. Some people as you mentioned (I think) that some people play it to get away...
You need to right click on the red underlined word and hit "recommended something" forget what it says, but click that and it should have you add a
using Plus.something.something;
Should work after that.