I just finished my 2nd playthrough of the new update and just realised(like many of you) this game will take so long to be finished like 2033-35? DPC has said multiple times season 4 is going to be the end of this story(unless something changed) but the game has so many path's/choice's i just hope DPC doesn't' burned out soon and stop or at least after 3rd season it fully out. Now for the next update maybe summer of 2026?
My main argument against 2 year updates is the severe psychological and moral exhaustion of DPC.
I think DPC himself realizes that a 2 year update would just kill him.
He himself said during the development process that he is under a lot of stress from not being able to release an episode within this year.
It's one thing when you release an update once a year, it's another when you've been working on 2 years. Especially for such a perfectionist DPC, who is extremely sensitive to everything is a big blow, after which he can burn out and get depressed.
We have examples in AVN when developers got depressed during the development process.
I don't really know what he'll choose. But I'm sure 2 years of development will just kill him.
So I think that in the next update he will try at least not to increase the size, because he himself has a hard time tolerating such long cycles.
Or he will just split the episode into 2 parts, which will allow him to develop the episode for 2 years much more smoothly.