I have a huge fondness for DMD, but SL is currently the flagship for MDots. On multiple levels it is a better product - plus it is in two selling platforms where DMD is only in Subscribestar.
DMD is a labor of love for us in some ways. The irony is the complaints people have about DMD have more to do with story choices MDots wants that makes it more vanilla than some like. But that is a story choice in many ways.
You can still keep SL as your flagship and just update it once very two months, there's a lot of dev teams that do this...not ideal but yet again DMD is getting put on the back burner for another game. Not saying Sunshine Love isn't great. I'm enjoying the newer game-play and the trophies to collect in the background of scenes which makes me appreciate the game more. But like I said, it's been 4 years of DMD, another year or 2 to go and it's been vanilla throughout. And now you're saying MrDots wants to make it more vanilla? That's insane and sure to be the downfall of the game. I truly hope the other people on the team convince him otherwise. He doesn't want NTR, that's fine. But don't scrap the kinks and fetishes...vanilla ice cream is boring.
Regarding the game itself...read the room, ya know. Do a poll if you must. The new direction is more or less boring. The story is being kinda dragged out, and while it's a good story, it feels like a soap opera and those things never end. I'm half expecting a twist where F isn't D's biological dad and his dead twin brother was. It's been like 2 years since the Patreon drama and it seems like those of us that came here for DMD and support MrDots for DMD are getting screwed every time.
