I don't think Palmer has chosen the best communication strategy. Describing every day what you did or didn't do for family reasons, illnesses, etc. It would be better to publish more regular posts with pictures from the game. Like in Innocence or Money, the author of the game makes two posts every week with cg, posting details from the game, with no real update for almost a year. But the author creates the appearance of rapid weekly activity (although he may be on vacation in Bora Bora for several months), but subscribers like to see gradual weekly progress with proof in the form of new pictures from the game. And the author doesn't have to tell us what he ate on Wednesday, whether he got poisoned on Thursday, etc.
A correct remark, but the dev himself does not understand what may happen to him and he cannot specifically plan his work schedule for the game! If he understood how much time he needed, he could manipulate it and not upset people!
For example:
"He knows that he will finish the update in two weeks, but tells everyone the deadline is a month, which gives him a smart marketing ploy.
If he finishes the update in two weeks, then he will release it two weeks earlier than stated, which will please a large number of his fans!
Even if he doesn’t make it in two, he has two more weeks left, and even if he releases an update after three weeks, that will also be a big plus, or if everything is really tight, it will come out in a month, as he predicted with time to spare!"
But in the case of Mr. Palmer, this does not work! Instead of a month, it could take him two and this will anger his fans even more, which is basically what is happening now!
He most likely needs to adhere to the policy of releasing:
"The update as it will be released when it is ready"!