You must be going ape at how long GTA VI is taking then. We haven't had anything on that apart from some early leaked footage in almost 10 years of development.
Comparing GTA to this renpy game is taking hyperpole to quite the high level there
Again man, a year and a half between updates. That is basically an eternity of time in this genre of games, and one you can argue already has an ample amount of default benefit of the doubt you speak of baked in to it before that default abandon tag gets applied.
I got nothing against the dev personally, but as a general rule of thumb popping in to patreon and spending 2 minutes posting an update message every few weeks or months does and should only go so far. I mean if everyone of us posting here had a dime for every time we've heard one of these game developers spin up a drawn out bs excuse story to alternatively explain what typically amounts to burn out and them simply losing any invested interest in continuing those updates we probably could of pooled it all together and bought out Twitter before Elon did.
Plus tag goes away with an actual pushed out update. So there's always that going in to the equation there too if you are that convinced it's coming and not as the responsive rush job a lot of others are expecting at this point.