Honestly, maybe I'm just naive, but from recent Crush's posts I'm starting to believe it's not some mastermind strategy to milk this product, but rather his own ego. For me the first release was the best one - i think it was like 3rd update, i'll link it cause it's tiny.
It was simple, but interesting, it was erotic, exciting cause after all it is a porn game. I'm starting to believe Crush got so much praise for his writing that he cannot accept 'losing' to initial hype and love, while backstory(childhood etc) was well written, it was unnecessary because people already liked main character, at least i did.