Let's see... Game has 3.5 years old and still animations are in early progress and half of the map unaccesible. Only professor job is available and bartander job is just standing there. Yeah sounds like milking project to me.
I only noticed this game a couple of years into development but from what I can see he's been pretty consistent with updates considering he worked a separate job up until recently and also has a life. There are a lot of developers that make thousands of dollars a month and put out less content like Breeders of the Nephelym, that developer doesn't even post status updates and makes 14K
minimum USD a month. Then you have games like Wild Life that rake in even
more money but, despite getting constant updates and multiple team members, the game is still just an animation viewer almost 7
years later.
Golden Crow makes, as of this post, around 641$ a month, has been in an automobile accident and had covid since the end of last year. Moreover, the next update is supposedly going to have many changes and additions. Cut him some slack.