It's not a bad idea to search for good game like that. I don't think that popular mean good but it's worth to see what the main game are outside of the obvious BaDIK and other stuff like that. On the plus side, you never know what you will find, it's an adventure on itself : )Ironically I found this game right around the same time, except I noticed it was rapidly gaining popularity when sorting by weighted rating. The MC is still psychologically abused (par for the course), but rather than being gut punched with a suicide scene you're gut punched with crippling depression and anxiety (and a dead mother...).
As for Artemis scenes: I honestly think they'll exist as Digi's way of appealing to the incest crowd without jumping through hoops to avoid the legal definition. It's a rather clever way of going about it since a sizable chunk of devs abuse the "stepmom"/"step-sibling"/"step-child" tropes when trying to circumvent Patreon's TOS.
As for Artemis, from what i understand, it's generally one year of waiting between each release + digi has his mom to take care of. So i will come here to see the update sporadically but i don't expect anything before winter.
Good wait for everyone, i'm personally eager to see how thing will turn out : )