I hope the author will consider the speed of the game. Many people are intrigued, but they may not live to the end. Like this global epidemic, the author seems to be doing more than one job at present
We don't know what other job he may or may not have. He promised that when he reached a given target, that he set himself, he would leave the further education course he was on to devote himself to this full-time & hire a team. When the target was reached & exceeded, he simply increased it & I believe may have done so again. Moving the goalposts is easier than recruiting & managing a team. Teamwork is not how he wishes to proceed.
Rest assured he's aware of the pacing issue. He's an intelligent man. AWAM is literally his pension plan, or part of it. He's said as much himself. He will always consider what can be done to alter the pace & has several times undertaken measures to speed up, each of which has resulted in slowing things down. There's been mention of a another move to quicken things up in 1 to 2 years, so, if past practice is anything to go by, we can look forward to even slower development.
Whatever happens there will always be supporters who would praise him & tell him what a marvellous job he's doing, even if there was one event per annum, which is a situation that's not impossible to imagine. His plan & way of working contain no incentive to go faster. He knows that he could make a lot more money with a modicum of extra effort but why bother, as money isn't everything. This has been going on for years & fans can either like it, or not. What he's doing is so obvious that I almost admire him. No other developer could get away with it in quite the same unique style.
I long ago stopped believing the Dev, or the idea that I'd ever see the end of AWAM. I stick around for the renders & out of curiousity.