From a pure technical standpoint I can understand why progress (I hate this word, thanks leftists losers...) is slow as he has a high standart of quality but still... He earned after taxes ~25.000$ since the last release. There should be some money left to upgrade that 386 processor or does he still use a Commodore 64?
I don't even think it's a hardware issue now. The game's biggest problem is the
developer, and how he has engineered this game to progress as slow as possible. There's so many inane, and unnecessary things that he adds that it just slows the main story.
Take a look at the following poll, and it's results.
Nothing speaks more volumes than this. It's very clear what the people want. They want to romance the mother, and see that narrative be told. But what does Gumdrop do? Everything, but that.