there is no reason why others would take longer afterwards
It's like you're from another planet. With L&P There are new and ingenious reasons for delaying the release with each update. And each time you and the other defenders find justifications as if to calm people down. And it's been going on for over two years now. In the next update he will still invent other excuses and once again you will come here to tell us the same falsehoods.
It seems that you are 5 or 6 people here on a mission to justify L&P bullshit whatever he does. Have the audacity to criticize his mistakes even once. Just to have a little more credibility. Because in case you don't know it, he's a human and humans make mistakes all the time. And his original sin here is the fact that he sees like all of us that at the current rate his game will take 40 years to complete and it's hilarious. And rather than thinking of ideas and asking for help to speed things up a bit, he prefers to change the render engine, add animations that nobody asked for, go from 720P to 1080P when he doesn't need that...etc.
knowing full well that it will just slow down the pace of development even more.
Do you think he doesn't know that everything he's done so far has only slowed the pace of development when it's already astronomical for a porn game??
Why every time the voices rise to ask him to do a little faster, he invents a new improvement that has nothing to do with the development speed as if to lure people while promising them that they will be very satisfied and it's worth the wait?
Do you think it's innocent and just because of his lack of organization?
Allow me to doubt it. Because it hasn't happened once or twice. I rather believe that it is a stupid stratagem which he has used too much and which is becoming blatant.
And it seems this scheme consists of gaining a month here, 2 weeks there and in the end it will make him a few more years of earnings.
Conclusion: Accelerating the pace of development for L&P is not a story of organization but rather a story of wanting. And it's clear he doesn't want that.
And now I let you guess the reasons.