Also I don't understand why this game would get rejected for Steam approval, it doesn't break any of Steam's rules, it just takes a press kit and the $100 deposit. So long as FarmD and Flora & Sauna both exist on Steam, there's absolutely no chance they denied a BE game for it being too lewd.
Observation: the Patreon hasn't been updated in a year, the Itch hasn't been updated in two (I think?), and the dev still visits F95 regularly.
Feels like a "crash and burn causing depression" situation, but IDK.
There's absolutely nothing stopping them from adding a paid version of the game to Itch while the Steam stuff gets sorted out, it takes like 10 minutes to set up a game on Itch, even faster if the game's already on there (it is), and I assume the dev's already got a payment processor linked too, so uploading the game would take probably literally 5 clicks and a changelog.