Wow..
The things that most people complain about isn't he fact that he's using Honey Select, not that the story's not great.
What they (or at least I) complain about is the difference between the time it take, the attitude of the attitude of the author and his excuse, claiming that he's working really hard, and the little content there is at the end.
For my part, he can take all the time he want, but don't tell me "I spent one year on the renders".
An "artist" can take time to make something that he will be proud of, but you can't take a year to make that little, some months if you want, but not a year.
Honey Select has all the tools to make the various scenes/pose, the content is downloable online, and there's a lot of mods to get even better tools, don't know how it's called by the pro, but making a pose is equal to "dragging" some point of the skeleton of you character, from what I understand, most of the work is done by the game, as I think with other program you may have to "make" the squeletton yourself. -> I'm not saying it's easy, I find it hard and tedious, but not to a point where a full timer developper would take a year to do that (And, well, normally speaking, he should have become accoustumed to the tools & have an easier time working)
Once again, Irphaeus can do whatever he wants, and the patreons too, it's their money after all, but don't come to say that Irphaeus is a saint without any fault, and that he's always working to the best of his capabilities, because it's just not possible. (I mean there's a lot of goal on his patreon saying that all that money is gonna speed up the game progress, there's even one were the patreons were supposed to have "the game will feature a new system with impactful choise along the story.", and that was his 700 patreons goals, he's at 1400 and there's still nothing
) (Refering to his patreons, he's supposed to have a "full" small team to developp the game, and the progress is still less that solo dev working normally)