I get what you are saying and I agree with it, but it sounds like you have a dislike for the beasty content that makes your comment sound very biased. Saying 168 scenes is for sure an exaggeration. Counting a slight variation of a picture with, say, the penetration being slightly deeper than the previous pic, as a "different scene" is not very honest. It doesn't take near the amount of resources to create a variation of a picture than it does to create a new one from scratch, and there's no way there's actually 168 scenes in the ranch. Pictures with variations sure, scenes no. At the end like you said it's a game focused on beasty content so that's what (presumably) the majority of backers will pay to see.
It seems to me that the same thing happened as with most other games... devs started milking the game. There's nothing stopping them from adding more of the planned ranch content for example, (or any of the other side content) but they don't even do that. I'm not saying that would be good for the game, I just mean that side content should theoretically not be a reason for the game to have less regular updates. That's why I think it's not so much they got sidetracked as they got lazy. Even without a sense of direction and with tons of side content, they could still be providing updates regularly. "Hey for this month we do this side quest" etc. That is just not happening. And again I don't particularly think that would be good for the game overall but would still prefer to just have regular updates even if it means more side stuff. Anything is better than nothing imo, and personally I'm not here for the story.
