It's obvious to me that when the 50 dollars tier released it is just a fake release to buy himself some time to rush out an update. No one subbed at 50 dollars tier anyway so he can get away with it while potentially luring ppl into subbing at lower tier. Very possible that he literally just finished his so called "1k renders" patch today and therefore only posted it now.
Funny enough he lied that he ALREADY has in hand "3k renders and hundreds of animations for 3 updates concluding season 1" when he initially came back, yet just now he changed his narratives to "still finishing the season 1 update". Contradicting himself as always.
and devs should stop doing this shit because??!
the reason why the gaming industry keeps doing it it's because they get rewarded by gamers with hard cash AAAND with PR defence all over the internet during the develepment proces, with every delay and sub par performance being excused not by the devs but by the players themselfs, because for every 1 gamer that practices patience with there cash you can and will find 10 who just cash dump a dev while screaming excuses to others,
Take this game for example, lets be honest here the past 15-20 months on this project progress has been EXTREAMLY lackluster, yet there were plenty of people dumping cash on him just fine, so why the hell should he NOT continue doing it if people don't stop the cash flow the moment things are starting to go down that sliperly slope than nothing will change.
on the bright side tho there are enf good games and H games in the world in this moment that if none ever get made ever, i will have not enf time in my life to finish them
*note
this is more of a message in general than a direct response to you but i felt like your initial comment provided a good starting point for mine