You realize he self admittedly only started working on that christmas event in around october 2022, pausing the development on chapter 1 at that time (and he said the christmas update would come out during christmas instead it came out 5 months later than that lol).
The last release before that was in October 2020. That means this current update he's "working on" again, the chapter 1 update, was already 2 years in "development" (with 0 releases) when he paused it for the christmas event development. Then since May (christmas update) it's been another 6 months. 2 years + 6 months. That means this update alone is at least 2.5 years in development.... not quite 3 years but close enough and definitely more than "not even 1 year". You don't just get to restart the timer of 2 years (and pretend it never happened) that he allegedly worked on "chapter 1" by releasing some holiday event no one asked for and that he only started working on after 2 years of "working" on chapter 1.
2.5 years, collecting $6,000-10,000~ a month the whole time and not being able to produce chapter 1 (even now which has been broken into multiple parts allegedly) is just insanity. At least his calcium levels are I'm sure quite high.