Not trying to defend L&P here but you should take into consideration the Christmas/New year period and the fact that they moved country. Personally I enjoyed some time off during Christmas/New year so it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that L&P did the same. If they did it would've been good to let everyone know though.
Sure, can't really argue with that. But L&P's statement was that he couldn't work between the 22nd/23rd and 25th/26th of December due to him moving countries if I remember correctly. That on it's own was super weird as it basically meant that he was working on Christmas(?), but not the days before and after? Didn't make any sense to me. If we also take away a couple days for New Years, we'd maybe end up with a week of no progress. The progress trackers on his Patreon page were moving during the holidays, but in slow-motion. Judging by that he shot himself in the foot with his own statements, as always.
Also worth mentioning that the year prior he had been working on 0.160 (from November 21st 2021 onward), which had 10 animations with a total length of 1 minute 17 seconds and 524 renders. This update was already terribly slow with 3.66 renders a day, but now we're waiting for an update that has apparently 0 animations and 290 renders, but is BARELY faster with ~3.8 renders a day.
Things just never add up with L&P. I would love to say that you have a point with the Christmas/New Years holidays, but fact is he's getting slower year after year, so that's not the reason.
Edit:
2019: 2775 renders total
2020: 2328 renders total
2021: 1872 renders total
2022: 1646 renders total
