I personally don't think he is. He is extremely transparent about his setbacks as a novice programmer and game developer. He gives extremely detailed posts about where the writing, coding, and art progress is and is very transparent about the mistakes he is making and how he has overcomplicated the code for the new release. He even skipped a gallery to get the last dev build out. I think he's pretty sincere about working on the game but is a bit over his head imo.
He also has a new schedule for releases, so once this update is out, he will do smaller updates that tackle only a few guys at a time instead of all of them at once (like this awaited release is doing).