Well he knows how to pay artists for high quality assets. As you say that's the one bit he doesn't skimp on but this is only because these screenshots and videos are what bring in the newMan, you can say stuff about Scamlius, but he really knows how to make female models. I guess that patreon members fall off really got his creativity going.Lets hope it dips a bit more so we get an actual release of the game.
Developing a competent gameplay loop, storyline or hell even his gacha and battlepass systems... that's a different thing entirely. At this point he's basically just dumping character models and recycled animations into an empty shell. It's basically an illusion title with less animations, models, no mod support, DRM and (somehow) less gameplay/story.