1 - While other games that actually have a ton of good, existing content are getting ignored?
2 - Thousands of people have been snared by a tease, a tease that has not yet delivered after nine months of game development and five updates (Prologue, 0.1, 0.1.5, 0.2.0, 0.2.5).
3- This developer is a puppet master. And no one cares, because they are hoping that it will all pay off one day, which it might. But it hasn't for nine months so far, so please be honest with yourselves and admit that.
These are some....interesting.....yeah, lets go with interesting....observations.
1 - I rarely speak for anyone but myself, but I will this time. This is apparently going to come as a surprise, but you can focus on more than one Dev/VN at a time. I seriously doubt that anyone is here and just focusing on this production only. Kind of hard to think that this is making anyone *ignore* anyone else.
2 - Thousands? I think you are being way too generous with how many people are interested in this, but you might be right. No real way to tell (that I am aware of). No matter how much of a disaster the last update was (subjective opinion), the fact that the Dev has released 4 updates in 9 months actually proves that they are interested in the project, and trying to make it work. Sure; I wish the Dev would pick a direction (maybe they have) and stick with it, but they are at least trying to do something.
There are Devs I love, and pay attention to without ignoring other Dev's (surprising, I know), that barely manage to release 4 updates in a year.
3 - How do you figure that? The overwhelming majority of us here are playing free releases from a pirate site. Kind of hard to say that anyone is being played here. MAYBE the Dev is a 'Puppet Master' when it comes to their Patreon supporters, or maybe the supporters just believe in the Dev., either way it doesn't apply here.
Perhaps you should be honest with yourself and just admit that some of us have the time to discuss a VN that we saw potential in, and that we would like to see succeed, whether you think it is worth our time or not.
I mean; I appreciate your concern for how I spend my time, but I think I just might be in the better position to decide what is a waste of it.
Have a great day!