Not gonna lie, all those excuses that "The loss of a close friend last year deeply affected me, leading me to reevaluate many of my life decisions" for me is a complete bullshit, for me is look like the money run out and now he is just trying to get the idiots people that love this game to fund all the stuff again.
"Last year, we developed "CeceAi," an AI chatbot. In hindsight, this may not have been what you all expected or needed from us. We ventured into various AI-related enhancements like AI voices and custom Python tools aimed at improving our games. Unfortunately, these efforts consumed much time without the intended payoff, further detracting from our core projects. "
So his depression only affect him doing the "main" projects but not working on other stuff? So we are seeing an "update" just because those "efforts" don't worked off...
"Moving forward, we’re recommitting to our projects, specifically "Amity Park." We're focusing all our efforts on preparing an exciting update, which we aim to release by the end of next month."
So again, this is a side project to fund the first game, expect the bare minimum (probally using AI) on this one...