I heavily suspect we're going to see another update within a month. My top five reasons are as follows:
- The Christmas cutscene is otherwise unaccounted for. If DPC follows the current schedule, then a Christmas teaser would make no sense for an update likely to come out in...September. Either the next update is based around Christmas (unlikely, if it's coming out in September) or we just ignore that cutscene. I refuse to believe he made a whole goddamn animation for Christmas that he doesn't intend to ever use in a significant way.
- Breaking the girls into individual plotlines is a red herring. I suspect that DPC knows that he cannot provide enough content for each girl to match the quality of updates he had with five girls. That's one path versus five paths, quintupling the development time. DPC knows this because he was never going to keep them divergent in the first place. I think we're going to see them all converge back onto a harem-style path after a major tragedy brings them together and gives them a reason to reconnect with the MC (now with personalities changed based on his choices).
- There was virtually no plot progression. This is a common trope we see before a major event massively changes everyone's personalities. It's typically used so that the author can make clear where everyone stands before the event so that the reader can contextualize their actions post-event. This can be seen in Game of Thrones where its largely uneventful episode 1 of season 4 helped establish a baseline before the Purple Wedding.
- The render count was off AFAIK from the reddit post. There also seem to be some missing spaces in each girl's rewards gallery for additional content. This would also entirely explain the protracted development time.
- There was no teaser for Episode 2. Also a convergence of the girls' plotlines would explain the title "Vixens" if they were to come back onto the MC after he'd broken up with them.