No. When I say 0.27-0.29, it was knowing that Chapter 2 would be 12-14 updates. I thought the loss of virginity would be early Chapter 3. After the fiasco, transferring Chapter 1 points to Chapter 2, many players would have dreaded going through that again for Chapter 3. Along with the fact that the "payoff", D's virginity, was lost in Chapter 2 would have been more than enough reasons for many players to abandon further updates of DMD. To keep them interested, the studio just postponed the pay-off to Chapter 3.
The corruption flower is a big joke, a flawed concept. DMD, up to 0.16, has not been like a rocket ascending higher and higher, or the flower constantly darkening. DMD was two steps forward, one step back most of the time.
The corruption flower belongs to the DMD-on-Patreon. Very slow, but steady, progress, DMD-off-Patreon has a far different story rhythm. The corruption petals could be darkened two or three per update. Whoever thinks this isn't plausible, I'd say : a dev creates reality, he doesn't follow it.