Irrelevant. Plenty of game devs openly pander for money/subs and then POOF, gone. That's why the abandoned tag is issued after 18mon. Chloe18 dev was one, where I got into an argument with him and I told him people had no reason to give him a dime until he showed us he was going to actually update the game.
If we're being honest, it's damn impressive to drag out 18mon between updates at this point. Even when you look at the biggest devs out there that are taking 15-18mon per update now, DPC's character model quality has fallen off of a cliff on top of adding a bunch of repetitive mini games that no one wants while we get virtually no development in the actual story. Ocean is learning new software, which means he's redoing and fucking up all of his character models bodies even when he gets the faces right. So, in short, more time in the oven is leading to a decline in quality bc it gives the devs the opportunity to overthink and over-scrutinize everything.
Even if you're doing development part time, which most are, you can't justify going from 3mon per update to bloating your dev time to 18mon+. That's like giving your Door Dash driver a fat cash tip after he forgets he picked up your order, leaves it sitting in his car for 5hrs before finally delivering it. You're still proving a good/service, I have every right to expect you to behave in a professional manner and deliver as agreed upon.