This has been said here before and the author has occasionally mentioned it himself on forums and social platforms. So I don’t believe this to be a secret.
I thought it’s more common knowledge which led me to believe some might say good things about the VN out of pity for that. I now realize that probably isn’t the case so I apologize for bringing it up in criticism towards the VN, it was inappropriate.
Well, thanks for the reply, it seems you don't mean bad, so I'll also leave the discussion to this point. I didn't had any idea of the personal problems of the dev, and my guess is, most of us here don't know either.
You raise some points valid for an entire discussion thread, like the quality of gay games, or how we should raise the quality bar, and I'm sure we'll get there, eventually. Just to give you an example: Lust for adventure, one of the few, if not the only, WoW based porn game, is mostly gay, and it has high production levels. Other games? Robin morningwood or strange flesh. There are some high quality gay games able to stand up to the straight counterparts.
But that is off topic. I'm not a fan of VN, but this game is alright, almost reaching the 3-4 star territory. Not groundbreaking, but deserves to take a look whenever your husbando of choice gets an update. Writing wise? at least you can read it, it's not like the writing disaster that is my game. Now THAT is cringy and painful.