For AWAM we use to wait months to get multiple days per update, which was fine to me.
You wait a couple months and you play a couple days. Then it changed to a day per update and we waited around the same time per update. Again, not that bad, you get a fair amount of content per update.
As the years have gone by the amount of content only decreased. Later it became a third of the day per update, each update was broken into MORNING, AFTERNOON, and EVENING. We still waited just as many months, if not more, to get a 1/3 of a day. This is when it started getting annoying to me. As a whole days worth of content was now a full year in the real world. At that pace it became clear that we would be looking at 8-12 years to finish this game.
People complained about wanting faster updates and the developers answer was to make the wait times just as long but break down each 1/3 of the day into several smaller updates. At our current pace, 2022 might just be the MORNING. We can look forward to the AFTERNOON in 2023 and possibly start the EVENING mid 2024. The time line for game completion is now 20-25 years