I completely understand what you're saying & agree to a certain extent but I think there's a circular aspect to this. This is connected with the old adage, "the devil finds work for idle hands." No, I'm not suggesting we're all idle & probably in most cases, far from it. Many, probably the majority of us, enjoy this game & whatever criticisms we make, still want AWAM to succeed but we play games for the escapism it provides from busy, pressured lives. It's the time between updates that leads to the analysis of every last detail. If the pace picked up between updates there wouldn't be so much time for this, so if the Dev does feel insecurity (& we don't really know), it's the time taken by the need for everything to be optimised & near-perfect that leads to the time for criticism & over-analysis, hence the circularity.
Having said that, most of the analysis is, like the the rampant speculation, often not meant to be taken too seriously. At least they're not intended to be malicious, in most cases. Where would we be without our speculations? As well as the criticism there's also a lot of well-meant suggestions, which like all advice can be ignored, or rejected without rancour on either side. I believe that this thread shows a very high level of interest in the game, which should be an antidote to any creeping insecurities.
My own preference to address the update gaps, assuming they don't improve, would be to have double, or treble the number of teasers. This still wouldn't be too many for timespans of around 5 months. We'd get to analyse more but it probably wouldn't be to such a depth. Just another suggestion....(well I like it).
One big question is, 'why do we do this?' It's because we're fans, which is short for fanatics!
