I think most people who are patiently waiting for C5 do give a shit about those things; we just understand that they're not the end all, be all. Notty had a series of unfortunate events, to coin a phrase, and decided in the midst of recovery that there were things that needed improvement, things in the game that just didn't work (the framing scenes for example).
The main reasons I still believe in this project and its author are twofold. First, she hasn't been charging her patrons. That's big. She's not raking in the funds to support the overhaul, believing that she should wait until the next new chapter comes out. I respect that a hell of a lot.
The second reason is that she has hired a manager to basically keep her on course from here-on. He's already told her that she has to totally drop a planned route in Chapter 6 which would have required a lot of dev time for little payout. Notty said it killed her to do so, but you know. Gotta kill your darlings some time. I also think that both this voice and her patrons/fans are not going to "let" Notty, say, revamp the whole entire thing AGAIN. Like, if Notty were to announce on Discord that she's decided that there needs to be mini-games in every chapter that will take another year of production with no genuine new content, I'd tell her she was nuts and would end my patronage, whether it were being charged or not. Personally I don't expect that to happen because I believe she's more disciplined than that. If I'm wrong or if I'm right, time will tell.