Not sure because dev seems to be cold feet about continuing the game content.
Where did you get that from?
I know this update took a lot longer then I expected it to but I wanted to get everything done right so that later down the line I don't end up needing to update the entire story again. There as still many things that I want to improve but the next few updates are going to have a heavy focus on adding new content and getting through the rest of story events. I won't give any hard release dates as I am not a good judge of how long things are going to take. That being said I am going to work as hard as I can to make sure an update is never this delayed again.
This is a quote on Patreon, from last update.
And it was said after 15.1 that the update v16 has to focus on "an almost full update of the entire story of last hope and many of the environments that are looking pretty outdated at the moment". We knew what we got in v16, jsut sucks it took longer then we and the dev hoped, but that happens.
But hey this site is famous for spurting out bullshit claims, lol.
Edit: fixed typo