We've decided to make the next update for Max again. Making updates so close to the end of the month is too stressful, so we've decided to make a shorter update to give us some breathing room. Giving Kate a smaller update wouldn't be fair for her, so Max gets the short end of the stick. Also Kate already has much more content than Max, so he gets to have more fun with Ann, Alice, a bit of Lisa and Kira in 0.41. In the future we want to give Max the same freedom to move around the map. It will take a lot of time, though, so it will be some time away from now.
Another reason we want to make another update for Max is... well, a muse, I guess? For some reason making new content for Max has been a lot easier lately. You get more images and more text in the same amount of time whenever we're making an update for Max. We're not doing this on purpose and we like Kate, but it is what it is. We will come back to an even split between Kate and Max as early as we can.