So he's re-rendered roughly ~100 static images plus another ~150 for the animations between the 8th-30th of November using a 4090. This graphics card is capable of rendering this amount of high-quality images in less than a day, basically.
For example; A 3090ti takes about 10 minutes to render a high-quality image with lots of assets. The 4090 has about 60-70% more power, reducing render times considerably.
And stoper is talking about a scene with 4 characters and a room with furniture and some other props. That's not all that much.
What this tells me is that he's barely "worked" more than a day in November, if you can even call it work clicking the render button and let the program do it's thing. This isn't scene creation. It's literally just re-rendering existing scenes. Oh, and also, he has 2 computers now, meaning he could have worked on the missing branch/scene or the next real update while his 4090 is re-rendering old stuff. But he didn't.
And not only that, but he's "barely worked" in December either, meaning he hasn't done jack shit these past 2 months. Anyway, with this bit of information provided, we now know that the development for the actual next update hasn't started, and we MIGHT get the missing branch/home event at the end of this month. Knowing stoper, more likely in February.
Which, at current pace, it's very likely that there's not going to be a real update this year unless things change for the better. Massively.
Edit: By the way, as per stoper's own statement he hasn't worked in December, but he didn't think for just a second to tell his supporters about it, giving them the chance to safe some money on a developer who isn't working. If that doesn't tell you what kind of guy stoper is, I don't know what does.