Man what a giant wall of post there Sonic, well there a simple reason for radio silence: if each month a post is simply "we squashed bugs, more bugs to squash" people will complain it feels like a lie, if there's no post, people complain there's none, there is no winning here, right now, development isn't on content but quality, hence why there is nothing to show.
Failing to meet release date isn't lies either, simply failure in planning, pushed by people being impatient, forcing the devs to throw a bone, but when the development is only bug fixing and quality, what bone to give than a potential release date? With all the complaining, insulting etc. It is very stressful for the devs and makes working harder: it is like being in a toxic workplace you can't quit.
As for the 12k per month, they already aren't enough for the current staff (counting art commission and more), and arenus development is already well over 6 figures.
If you think it is easy to give quality, length, fun, and not just porn, how come we barely got quality porn games a lot of shovelware with porn scenes every 2 minute without interesting story and barely any gameplay?
The devs are working hard to please people, hell, they don't care that their games are here for free.
The stress of arenus work is even felt within the team, with Kal interacting less around while before he was very active.
Again, it isn't easy, but beside release date being fucked, the content of arenus and the promises for the game were never lies, which is exactly why it is taking so much time to bring it to everyone (including for free on f95zone)