Actually I consider this coming update a Strategic defeat as well. L&P supposedly wanted to show that he can get the updates into a steady flow and more importantly, show that the game would be finished in a lengthy, but predictable time frame.
What happened and is happening, since the fracking "quick" update is still in the works, is that this comatose slug of a developer had far less work to do for the new update than the former ones, but "succeeded" in having this update being even SLOWER in development than before.
And this is not the worst, the Dev had the audacity to call the predictions of a member, I think it was
bayrischman, who stated early on that he predicts an update not before June since the Dev was a Schnecke from the start, openly ludicrous! What is now? A June update at best and the Dev is silent on the prediction now, shamed be he who thinks evil of this!
"Great" work by L&P, a smaller update with longer development time than ever for the amount of content in it! It might even be the only update in 2021 considering the accelerated (the only thing L&P "quickened") slowing down of pace.
I had been very sceptical well before this update about L&P, but now I am convinced that AWAM will end like "Foot of the Mountain" or "Forgotten Paradise" with a tacked on, underwhelming ending, because the Dev is completely unable to deliver anything in an acceptable timeframe.
I would call this a major Strategic defeat, because L&P succeeded splendidly in eroding any trust in his abilities to deliver the whole game still in our lifetime. You have to be deluded to believe an erotic game with a predicted end date in the 2030s(!), considering the Dev makes slugs look like racers, will be finished.