Are these other games possibly going to take around 30 years to complete? At the rate L&P is going, it might take around a decade to get to the first sex scene.
That's at least one difference.
You can't blame him for speed if his story is big. Till day he has been a one man show.
You can compare the speeds with other Devs based on how much they produce in a given time frame not how big their story is.
Does L&P need to be faster than majority Devs ? Definitely yes. He has a lot to tell.
Is it fair to call him slow when he developing almost at the same pace as majority developers but with far better quality ? No.
We know the scope of the story. Had that not be known the issue wouldn't arise of him being slow.
Now the issue is our own weakness, that is curiosity to see what will happen in the future with Sophia and as a result people vent at L&P.
Another factor is the aim. For the audience it is simple, show us what will happen further in the story.
For L&P it is about making an ambitious game. He constantly wants to up the quality.
A clash of the end desires is what is causing this rift. Just as we need to be understanding of what makes this project worthwhile for L&P, he needs to understand what his audience desires.
Hence why even though I definitely wish the pace of development improves, I can't demonize L&P for his pace like most people do. It is a conflict of what each side wants and a hope that L&P will understand at some point what we want or reach a point of satisfaction with quality that the only room left is for the quantity to be improved.