In a perfect world, updates would come every 1-2 months, like with Tell Tale Games. That way, things stay fresh without getting boring. But with small teams, often just one person, that’s just not realistic. I think it’s just an inevitable situation, that you forget stories or even games, or rather wait until something is finished or had enough updates for a couple of days playtime unless you are superfan and replay it anyways each update or have elite level memory. Waiting a year for just two hours of story doesn’t seem worth it. Still, a lot of these visual novels are passion projects, and if I had the skills for writing and design, I wouldn’t want to hand that off either. Discovering a new VN is great, and Eternum is messing up my sleep schedule since two weeks, but I already know that it won’t be finished in the next two years.