So he is aiming for december officially... With about 3-4 weeks left only for animation-rendering. And he didnt gave out the game for testing, cause he will do only if its complete.
The only testing is from himself.
I think testing alone from others will cost another week, and than of course there will be things to correct and polish during this time and a little after testing is done. So the testing by others and final polish together would be 2 weeks on top of it...
Overall, lets say, about 6 weeks from now he can be done... very optimisitc guess, 5 weeks... Which means, release during christmas weekend... is he really gonna do THAT? I admit, i give shit about christmas, i dont like it... especially the fake family get togethers, you dont see them the whole year, but yeah, christmas is mandatory? Fuck this, iam skipping christmas about 10 years now... just nice free days for me ^^ (yeah my family sucks) But the point is, DPC has family he likes, and a release will mean stress, a lot of it... during those days? I cant imagine that he is willing to do that...
The week before christmas is very optimistic considering what is left to do... so, in my mind... the only option left to get it out in december will be the last december week between christmas and new year.
Well... i would advice DPC to just lay a little back now, starting with the development of episode 9 the ultimate goal was late october/mid-november release, i bet on it. He missed it, not dramatic. Now to push it out and stress himself out during holiday is not worth it... relax during christmas until new year and get the update out AFTER those days in the first week of january... i think this would be the healthy thing to do.
And to me, and maybe most others, it doesnt really matter if its out at christmas or not... really, even on F95 i think most people have other things to do than to play a porn game on christmas

Well i dont, cause i skip christmas anyways... but most people dont do this. So i dont see a point for stressing himself out just to get it out during christmas days. If he can make it a week before christmas, fine... but its not that realistic as we can see. So my friendly advice for DPC... just let december be, get it out first week in january and everything will be fine.
I was disappointed that he missed november as a release date, but now... late december, or first week january, i dont care... but for him i think the healthier thing to do, would be releasing it in january instead.