I want to add something to why it might be taking L&P longer to release these updates this year, last year (and maybe even 2021), compared to the previous years. It could be he might have to render some of the same scene again (but with an aged up version of a character) for the Decisions of Life (DoL) version of the game.
Which if that's the case it sucks because that means that's another reason the game releases are slow because of those renders. However L&P has no choice. Any of the games you see on F95zone that contain incest will mention (from the creator and fans) about them changing up the characters age or change the plot entirely to suit the Patreon warlords eyes. Count our blessings the game is still going. Games like "Dating my Daughter" or "Research into Corruption" as some examples were banned on the Patreon platform.
Though some games do use SubscribeStar to keep going with those games (like DmD). But for L&P's case......his SubscribeStar donor numbers are EXTREMELY low compared to his numbers on Patreon. So unless the memberships on his SubscribeStar page pass his Patreon numbers, he's stuck with making extra renders exclusively for DoL.
L&P Is spending time creating DOL in addition to AWAM, with DOL being the 'landlady/flatmate' type of VN.
DOL is effectively a bit of deception so that the gods of Patreon can give him a thumbs up and say they 'say/hear/see no evil' so no Patreon rules are broken, and all is well... No need to look for incest here...
L&P could have decided to use the DOL updates as a way to train one or two new members of his team (if he actually valued building a real team).
This would have, in time, given L&P more time to develop his real money maker - AWAM, all while training and assessing the skills of those new members who could have begun helping with future work on AWAM (imagine having others who are helping with future scenes in AWAM while L&P does the final work and QA/QC for the current scene in a given PD, and how that would increase speed of development).
This is something that a number of other people, including me, have posted about in the past, but we might as well be spitting on a house fire and pretending we are making a difference in putting it out for all the improvements in the speed of development of AWAM that have come from our suggestions (and yes - many people have made suggestions to L&P on Patreon and SS, me included, and that has gotten us just as far).
Truth = L&P does not have to be 'stuck with making extra renders exclusively for DOL,' he's chosen this path and has shown no interest changing it.