There are a lot of rumors in the room. Surely you can't take everything for granted but ignoring all of it would be stupid. So let's see:
1. The original plan was to have three playable characters (the beefy one we can play right now, the athletic cat we can fight against in the arena and the chubby one who takes a leak in the woods) but now it looks like you can only play the first one cuz the dev team wanted too much that can't be done with the resources they have.
2. The love routes outside the arena fight get reduced too and not only the amount of NPCs you can date but content for each one of them.
As i said there's no 100% proof for that but i learned my lessons about being too trustworthy with Patreon so i decided to only watch it but not invest money anymore.