Money doesnt matter at this point, he earns enough so he doesnt even need to work anymore.
Depends on the life style choices. If you want a proper yacht and coke/hookers even occationally (who doesn't) then it might become
very expensive, even for someone like DPC. I'm not joking, however speaking more seriously, you cannot underestimate the matter of funds in his line of work future projects wise.
I'm sure he speaks truth when he's saying about the desire to get started on medival/sci-fi project even if he might just "testing waters" among his fans regarding that mostly but DPC's a smart man, after all. He's got to squeeze this very project properly first - to expand as much as he can, not to let go his chance to do it. This industry's niche is becoming less and less niche with every year.
And gut feelings aside, this ep's high point about choice is
not an end game indicator. Not yet, no. The overall plot is moving too slowly - that's just obvious. But I get what you're saying - it'll
become one if DPC will change his fucking mind, yes. We've already were fishing for retcons here. Although they're rather indicating otherwise.
And my biggest "fish" is Sage. I don't know if people have even talked about it extensively after 5-7 ep releases but just remember what Sage were in the early episodes and look at her in the context of choosing Sage <> others. "This girl is trouble", "she seems to like bad boys" - where the fuck is that? Oh, we just haven't seen her
true color, amirite
? How intricate. Give me a fucking break. She just meant to be the main option for "DIK players" but now it doesn't make that much sense since "DIK players" are suppose to pick the other huge option instead. I need to meditate on it some more but she may end up being the most inconsistenly/poorly written character in the entire game.