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It has most of the same staff as the previous season, yes. So, it should keep its feel.
As for Harvest/Fertility, I wonder if the ambiguity (both translations are listed on AniList for instance) might arise because ancient goddesses of fertility were often the same goddess as for the harvest. Demeter from the Greek pantheon is the most well-known example.
I'll use the spoilers tag just to be safe; the name of the god that I'm talking about is a spoiler, I think.
on Harvest/Fertility
It's possible that the translators were a bit more familiar with Greek polytheism than the Norse one, and assumed that Freyja's fertility aspect implied harvest. It would work well for her brother Freyr (who's a fertility and harvest god), but not for Freyja herself.
And, since both rule complementary aspects (war vs. peace, gold vs. prosperity, feminine witchcraft vs. masculine kingship), that even creates a negative association between her and harvest.
Note that, while the opposition isn't in DanMachi (as there's no Freyr), DanMachi Freya is represented rather close to her mythological counterpart: ruling a Fólkvangr full of warriors, looking for her Óðr; sex on legs, not above using her charms to get what she wants, but definitively not commanding prostitutes (as Inanna/Ishtar in The Epic of Gilgamesh, or DanMachi Ishtar on the Pleasure District).
But perhaps the fact that it's a big arse spoiler prompted them to change it? If you talk about "harvest goddess" in DanMachi people will kind of wonder who she is; fertility though is another matter - people would beeline for Freya on one side and the Hostess of Fertility on another.