Unfortunately on the internet we can each only control ourselves. I can choose to write with respect and so can you but neither of us can stop others. Believe me if I could just ban "does there sex yet?" posts I would. The reason I mention this is if this project is ever abandoned the blame will be reflected back on the community - not enough support, not enough money, too negative etc.
Onto your questions:
1. I don't think L&P is stupid but what he perceives as a problem and what you or I might will differ. He clearly doesn't consider the release schedule a problem since he only slows it down but also demonstrated awareness that his supports do have a problem with it since he keeps promising to improve it.
2. I don't think L&P has any desire to bring on specialists for this game. Every suggestion on this has been shot down.
3. At the current development rate I think the chances of abandonment are basically 100%. There's no chance this will still be in progress in its current form 5 years from now. Very very few games last even 2 years before they're either completed or abandoned. Female protagonist and slow burn type games fail even more often.
I've managed people and projects in the working world and if someone on it was telling they me they were doing 11 hour days, they were missing deadlines and getting only slower that would be a call for immediate action to get things back on track. Usually that person would be totally miserable already and delighted to do something, anything, to get back to a sustainable and productive working schedule. If that person was actually pretty happy and refused to change then I'd say their chances of having a job still 6 months later were slim.
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