You do realize that he's went from 1/3rd PD updates with 800-900 renders to event-based updates which have 100-200 renders each, yes? The amount of content is almost cut into half while taking the same amount of development time. So no, this is everything but great. At this pace it will take more than 2 years for a single day to be completed.
Also, when this update releases, it's gonna be more than 6 months while having much less unique renders compared to last years updates. It might look like we're at approximately ~650 renders in 6+ months after 0.161 release (which is still ~200 renders short compared to last years 0.150 update, and that took "only" 5 months, by the way), but reality is that many of these renders have been reused, making the actual unqiue render count probably more like ~400. Reason for that, in my opinion, is to obfuscate the fact that there is no helper for animations, so L&P is doing the usual. Lying to people to get away with his nonsense.