You guys can complain about the update all you want, but the dev won't hear you because the pile of cash he is sitting on is so tall your weak insignificant voices can't reach.
This is the 4th game he has in active concurrent development.
All four have separate contracted artists, while he manages the projects and is involved in the plot and dialogue, and probably does at least some of the development.
Meanwhile he takes in nearly $20K/month just from patreon.
Take away taxes and platform fees, that's still $15K. I'll be generous and say that the artists an other support staff are getting $5K of that between them a month.
I don't begrudge the dev any of the benefits of this situation - he's cracked the code, found the secret of life. No-one forces the public to throw money his way.
If he can keep the patrons happy even with just tiny update releases like this once every few months, good job!
It's probably even a net-positive from a marketing perspective, because it bumps the game up to the top of the "new updates" list for even more visibility.
you are right, he is still a cunt