While I understand the sentiment, the developers in this case actively communicate with patrons, we also have free public releases. There are developers who have went years without a release and don't actively communicate...
And you've still had developers come out and say the only purpose of Innocent Witches is to milk patrons of money on Patreon. Those same developers left because they couldn't stand it.
It's quite weird to be frank. Weird enough that I'm actually breaking character to talk about this. The only expensive part of this game is arguably the art, but with the way the art is in the files, and the fact that there's loads of custom artwork that's been posted by a variety of people. You guys should have a slew of scenes already for fapping.
Sad Crab is getting typically more than $20,000 on Patreon each month. Coding in Ren'Py is not difficult at all. And replicating an art style isn't all that difficult either. Taking into account that you have well over 500 subscribed patrons in Discord, and then quite a number of people who are interested in the game. Some of these people having posted fanart before utilizing in-game assets, or even something that looks like a custom drawing for a scene. Art shouldn't be an issue either.
The story isn't even bad from what we know so far before the "new plot" was introduced. You guys have completely changed your roadmap from what it was before, which is kinda hilarious. The fact that the roadmap is indicating now that it takes an entire year to do a story? Completely ridiculous. Especially when the story at best is going to only be an hour or two of actual story that's locked behind fifteen hours of grinding.
You can talk as if the developers actively communicating is a good thing. But it's quite obvious that you guys are only milking your patrons for their money while putting out little to no content. Hell. It's even more weird that one of the developers is on here trying to defend stuff, yet is only digging the team an even bigger grave at this point with his comments.
People can, and will always be patient for content they like. But don't act as if you guys aren't taking advantage of those people's goodwill lol