I used to think so too, but after being removed from Patreon, he still creates and doesn't cry like Raince. I don't know how many of you work, but I know that after work I just want to rest. Zip simply lacks the time and ability to plan properly. That's why there were such delays, he thought he'd get the hang of it in a month, but he didn't plan it well... nothing new, actually.
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# You do sound reasonable.
We've all been through that: underestimating the workload ahead, being tired/unwilling to work at the end of the day and therefore failing to deliver as promised. But one would learn by now not to commit the same "mistake" over and over again. One'd learn to be honest and never promise anything again. All he had to do was to show some progress periodically.
My take on this: I believe he keeps posting time frames and release dates just to keep interest alive (call it milking, communication, whatever...). If it were for RA this game would be long forsaken, but Zip has a different approach: he keeps feeding the fire, most of the time empty handed.
I do believe many of those times he believes he'll deliver something close to the posted deadlines, but he gets lazy/distracted/overwhelmed quite easily, and he's always been like this. American Gothic is right when he says people shouldn't be surprised/outraged by now. It's always been like this. But that doesn't mean we should take it passively.