People in his discord are legit starting to straight up ask "when's the update" daily now and they're no longer getting insta-banned/flamed. Additionally, his patreon earnings are now down to less than 4k a month, so there are actually incentives for him to push out at least one more update. His incentives of course being that he isn't constantly bombarded with "when update" no matter where he looks (even in #dev-questions lmao) and to keep up his patreon donations for a few more years. We might only get one more update before Komi endlessly milks the idea of a new update for a decade then just leaves without saying anything, but it will at least be one more update and it will likely be soon.
Believe not in Komi the pathological liar, but in the discord community that he spends probably 8 hours a day in starting to legitimately ask questions instead of just endlessly glazing him (very surprising I know) and the cash-cow that is his subscriber-base beginning to no longer produce milk.
People 'legit' started to ask that all the way back in mid 2022 when the development time started getting close to 2 years at that point; that's when the dev promised to release the complete chapter 1 update before the end of 2022 and then changed it to early 2023, but then said he will release the Christmas update first for Christmas and released some random crap 5 months after Christmas. Later in 2023 he would say that he doesn't have the whole chapter 1 update but only has two thirds of the update and is going to release it in parts, and now it's 2025 and he hasn't released anything...
You see, the reason he hasn't released anything isn't simply to spite the players; it's because he doesn't have anything to release. Making an update is a lengthy and labor-intensive process, and just because people are starting to complain again doesn't mean that the update is going to just magically make itself. If he doesn't have anything to release by this point after 4 years, it's highly improbable that he will all of a sudden make an update now just because people are complaining again.
There is no need to lie to yourself and others, if a dev cannot or will not make an update in 4 years it's safe to say that the game is dead.