You don't just have writers block for 5 months
Sadly this game is going down the drain, they had issues behind the scenes that they didn't want to fix and now the whole ship is sinking
You can try to convince yourself otherwise but you know its true, even the artist is getting ghosted by the coder, he isn't just going to suddenly pop back in again and everything goes back to normal, not after this long
The artist is going to try and keep the patreon alive by working on 18titans (he'll likely resume the patreon which he could absolutely get away with because the majority of MITYs patrons are doormats) with vague half promises about how the coder will definitely possibly maybe get "recharged" and get back to work on the update, which will probably last about a year or so before the artist forms his own patreon once the MITY cow can no longer be milked
Sucks to see one of the greats go down in flames but I think the people that didn't drop their support at the start of this fiasco are partially to blame