Very good questions for every single enabler who has been feeding that little monster for 6 years now. Happy with your creation? I guess...
I've supported some dev's for > 1 year while they were overcoming health issues or just having challenges staying on track with their creation, all resulting in very slow or even no seeming development (although the smart devs tried to keep their community informed of what progress was being made).
My 'time of stay' was typically focused on how much I enjoyed what Had been produced and how much potential I thought the AVN still had.
If I DM'ed a dev and got ignored, asked questions on Patreon or SS and got ignored, then those decisions by the dev helped me to shorten my time of stay supporting them with $.
I've even terminated support for a few devs who seemed to hit a wall and then, a year or more later, started support again when they seemed to get past that wall.
We are human and bad things happen to all of us.
With L&P, though - he has moved closer to
ICSTOR territory, in terms of promises and delays.
L&P is not there yet, and I think he is smart enough to know that slowing the trickle of development too much Will prompt a significant exodus of supporters.
He has burned through much of the good will that this community had for him and, even where he may have legitimate issues that slow AWAM development down, many of us are so distrusting of what he tells us that we choose not to believe him; we can't Know when he is telling us the truth and he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt.
Tell too many lies or deceive the community too often and it's just another iteration of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf.'
I enjoy playing AWAM, but I no longer believe that it will be completed or that it will be produced with sufficient speed to allow any of us to enjoy immersing ourselves in the AWAM universe once we have caught up to the available content.
Cheers!