Hey no one expects you to be a Triple A, and so you have the leeway to take time to produce a product that your pleased with. I think the people who see how good your game is and the potential it has would be more annoyed if you did the pro crunch. So don't kill yourself making the game.
But yeah larger updates are better then piecemeal. People will get bored quick if there's small content additions that can be missed vs. building anticipation of for the next large update. but a caveat, keep some sort of schedule for your own discipline and so fans know updates will come regularly and not ever two to five month.
Unfortunately, you don't have control of your own game thread. So your gonna get more antagonistic posters. And your gonna get people who are quick with criticism and short with complements. Their gonna poo poo on plot development, foreshadowing and the building of atmosphere and label it useless, pandering and/or pointless. Your gonna get complaints on the graphic that you have no control over because you may not have a system that can render and capture 10 billion k images. Their gonna complain that your models are unoriginal even thou there are far to few good graphic packages for Ren'Py and EVERYONE and their dog is using the same one.
Don't worry, you already have fans of you work despite the things out of your control. Fans who see the potential in all you scenes no matter how throw away they seem. Because someone who's just here for a 40sec Fap session will not see the story devices from the pixelated titties.
THE GAMES GOOD! Good luck and don't feel guilty coming to see us for validation if your getting shit on by trolls. Even seasoned developers like
AltosandHerdone get bogged down by negative review and post sometimes seek some love from fans so...
ok I'm done rambling.