The naming and then renaming of the episodes has became just ridiculous.
you are right but this is developer decision...
he have done some mistakes... The EP 2 was planned to be not so big...
but the anxiety of following too much the advice of the team and supporters made the plot a monster size that got a little out of hand to the developer due to the bugs caused by the size and this is not a pure RenPy engine game (the code was changed to make it similar as an RPGM engine that was the engine used for the first release)
Developer's decision on his work is always to be appreciated ... I completely agree with this decision ...
This game is in developing phase... changes are normal in this phase...when the game will be complete
This change will be forgotten and it will be easier to put it in a catalog with other titles where there are rules about episodes and version number.
But I still suspect that the Team is not helping him... They seem to have no experience in computing and programming