Same with me here. I was hyped for every update until last year October. After that EU slowed down with the updates and the updates contains more path specific content, which automatically reduces the playtime, if you follow only one path. (This isn't bad btw.) Actually I am feeling more like to wait a year or two, until a lot of new content is out, so I can start again from the beginning and enjoy the content of every possible path.Yeah but there's a more recent beta that's been out for ages now but still hasn't been leaked. Although tbh from the sounds of the last dev post it seems like it might not actually be worth playing this or the next release. It's not until the release after the next that we'll finally be getting a decent path where we can avoid Laura using the watch on us without letting her get away with stealing it.
And the lost in interest is not because of Laura, I enjoyed the twist that EU has created.
There are also a lot of other games outside, which we can try between the updates. For example My new Neighbors from Rmaximus, if you are here because of the expansion and HS.