If that's how long it takes for DEKA than at least he's being honest about it and that is a step in the right direction.
Stop excusing and normalizing his blatant laziness and scam. That kind of parasocial relationship you have towards him is weird as fuck and pretty damn cringe. He doesn't care about you, his patreons or his games. Just take a moment to finally realize it already. You can't just keep posting about "Best girl", "Worst girl", "Harley Queef" and other cringe shit on here, pretending everything is fine through pink tainted glasses when everything is definitely not fine and the game has taken such a massive shit turn and it was all due to Deka's laziness. How long do you really plan on living in denial? We've been through some of the shittiest updates, 6.0, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0 and 9.0 and as much as it gets worse and worse by the update, you still have faith in the guy.
Get some help, go fap on some poorly made game and reach post-nut clarity. Time has never been the issue. He has had all the time in the world, so pretending it's because he runs out of time after delay upon delay on every deadline he gives himself after nearly a whole year and his excuses remain the same "I don't have all the CGs" and so on, blaming everyone else but him, I don't know what to tell you other than it's his bad and he's terrible at everything. He commissions like 6 fucking PNG a year and apparently the game always comes out late because he doesn't have the key PNGs (Which he keeps on leaking most of them on Patreon anyway). I'll spell it out slowly for you.
He. Doesn't. Want. To. Work. He just wants his money people blindly give him for no work so he can pay the rent while doing nothing. Now either wake the fuck up or take the easy way out and keep reacting with the facepalm reaction that you always do when you're being called out when you say the most absurd shit on every fucking threads. I would normally prefer just to ignore you, but I can't ignore the pure willingness to being conned by the most incompetent dev in the femdom games community.