I'm sure at first, the dev's actually gave a shit but I'm sure through a combination of greed/money, burnout from constant writing and people complaining/whining, they probably stopped giving a shit a long time ago. Nothing kills motivation more than when people take a shit on you and/or your work.
I said it before and I'll say it again, a bunch of fans should just come together and make their own COC II inspired game. Take out the boring ass aspects of combat and your pretty much set. COC II basically just a VN anyway. Not sure why combat even a thing in this game when it's basically pointless and boring, as well as the fact it goes against the dev's stance that COC II isn't a power fantasy.....right so me soloing hundreds of cultists on my own isn't a power fantasy? lol