I bet he's having a little trouble keeping up with pace, for whatever reason
Doubt it, the AMA showed he's got a paced process to this stuff. He just doesn't care about each individual update like we do. So for us, waiting for plot relevance with Maya's new events after getting the Yumi / Uta update was the most important thing, which would make up for the dorm wars probably not going to do much for people (even though Niki confrontation -> Noriko virginity was my cope), and then that would be a nice cliffhanger for the month break which he would have scheduled months in advance.
Then he noticed the anniversary coming up, saw a way to satisfy people wanting care packages (and then sell after fanfest on top of padding income a month) and did that. Can't move the vacation, so Maya moves back an update which is two extra months now.
The way he's moved the Niki Noriko and Ami events to 0.50 implies he knows how much people wanted it, and is creating a banger of an update worthy of being waited for (Last time an update had a break like this, it was CH3's ending iirc). One would hope on the easy days like adding a music track he's been plotting and drafting some of 0.50's content since he can't do 0.49's until the polls are done.
And there's two animations coming, so two grindable sex scenes. Now it could be a new position for Ami and Niki (Sara is kinda just here this update, unless she's following on from Sana's sex which would be timely, Ayane already has a new position in her dorm so more to her is just greedy)
OR I'M BACK IN BUSINESS WITH BOTH NORIKO AND MAYA SEX SCENES WOOOO. If we are getting Maya's lust grinding, it would make sense at this time to ease in with non-sex acts. Surely Noriko's gotta start with dicking though right?
Or if we're making a yes but no prediction, other people are getting a random position without a relevant character scene. Maybe it makes sense in the dorm wars aftermath.
