Does Sad Crab understand the market for their game, or not?
I tried this game first in 2018 or 19 while being sick and I remember that I downloaded it only because of cool art style. I just wanted to fap on sexy scenes in very good quality. When I saw a shitton of text I was like "I ain't reading all that". After some time (I think that was 2020 or 21) I played it once again while reading most if not all text there out of boredom.
You know what? This game sucked and still sucks in both. They have good art quality but lack of content. Doesn't matter how good artists are, if they're not producing content that fills the needs then it's useless waste of time. Writing was and still is shit(-ish). I can see that this game is staying smooth and quite logical w/o "and then he fucked each girl in universe" but severe lack of planning led them to this situation where they can't understand where story should be going. Always write your fucking story from end so you won't end up in situation "wait it's not going the way we planned".
But instead of actually solving problems they're fine with them. They still receive a shitton of money so no need to change or try anything. Deadlines are loose term for them, they probably not even arguing about story at this point, they just sitting there and be like "well, we'll solve our writing problems some day" while milking pockets of loyal (blind and stupid) fans.
They need to be punished by lack of money and realize that ANY story is better than perfect story (that no one will actually write because this shit is subjective) so they'll start to writing whatever just to meet deadlines with finished updates.