Or it could just be a lot of people realized the Polls in the past screwed up what has the potential for being a very good game so they decided to support at $40 to try and steer the game back to something good. With all of it's faults it's still got the fact it isn't the same old Renpy or Date Simulation crap you see in most games.Since he managed to get people to give him that much money monthly, he obviously does things that people want, right?
So why would he start messing with it? Shit if I was earning 25k / month for doing something, I wouldn't change anything