Tbh I dont think they are getting enough money to pay 3 people at the same time, that might be one issue.
You need someone for art, someone for writing and someone for the programming part, at least if youu want to work efficiently.
I know they have one person for all of those, although idk the pay basis. But I know not all of them are full time. So there is probably a bottleneck. That being said, I dont pay that much attention to it these days, there also doesnt seem as much interaction on the discord - dev to patrons - as there once was.
They are still miles ahead of most other patreon funded games tho.
by the post, 0.10 sounds awful, there will be new scenes for characters that nobody cares about like Maply, Kia, Bris
I am pretty sure if these scenes are the one being developed it is by demand of the patrons. I know some who like the characters so its not out of the question, and some patrons pay quite a lot, so they have some large input on dev priorities.