I mean, do we trust Komi here or is he just chatting shit again? I don't know. I think he really needs to change his tune if he wants people to stop doubting him when he makes posts like these
Reading his post there are 2 major red flags in there:
1. He talks a lot about how great and extensive the update will be and how he is going to release it but makes no mention at all, in that great wall of text, as to WHEN the update will be released. Not even some ballpark estimate, like in the next 2 weeks or 2 month or 3 month... nothing.
2. In a post about releasing the update he says that he is LOOKING FOR ARTISTS?! A post about the release is normally made when the dev is in the final polishing stages of development not when he doesn't even have all the art let alone the artist...
Now if we consider the situation up until now that the dev was promising to release chapter 1 by the end of 2022 in 2022, and then made a lot of other statements which didn't come true, then this post starts to really feel like an attempt to prolong the milking of the gullible:
1. He strings along the gullible by saying the update is coming... but doesn't say when so you can't really hold him to any time frame
2. He says he is looking for artists so he can later have an excuse as to why it's taking so long to release anything...
This is what his post seems like to me given the circumstances.