And by the way when you guys say " updates is long, but updates are huge " what does that mean? did he put 5 minutes update monthly or did he go big and long from the start..How do you calculate an update? how much is a year's worth of updates?...is it in sex scenes or in time reading the visual novel?
What does "updates are huge" mean?
In this post, I have linked the playthrough videos for Chapters 1 through 5 -
#9,824. Total view time in what I call the "Harem Path" is over 25 hours if a person actually reads the text at an "average" rate and doesn't skip.
Chapter 5 alone is about 7 hours.
I have not recorded Chapter 6 but is as long as, if not longer, as Chapter 5.
With most well structured storytelling - Act I introduces the characters, sets the narrative, gives the reader the potential conflicts, the inciting incident, and prepares them for the turbulence with the conflict that is about to come in Act II and the resolution of Act II. Or, to paraphrase how one author puts it, Act I is putting your main character in a tree and Act II is throwing every rock, twig and any other object at them and seeing if they can stay in the tree, Act III is where we see how the main character saves themselves and climbs down.
From my perspective:
Chapters 1 through 4 appear to be Act I. So there was more expository narrative and less action than what is seen in Chapter 6 (and I assume Chapter 7, onward).
Chapter 5 starts Act II and Chapter 6, events rapidly become more complex. By the end of chapter 6, with the harem path, the MC has sexual intimacy to "completion" with every single available woman introduced as a possibility in the story. The MC has penetrative sex with all but one. At the same time, all three household members are confronting a lot of inner demons.
Your opinion is your opinion on how development should work. Everyone has their own opinion.
The developer, however, responds to queries daily in his discord and provides weekly progress reports - listing the number of hours invested in that previous week, and an accumulative total. If he went dark in communications for more than a couple of days, there would be serious concerns voiced about his health and safety by the fans that are VERY active in the discord.
BTW: This week's was released 40 minutes ago, showing about 2/3 completion of expected scenes, 51 hours of development last week and just shy of 1700 hours in this update, total, since January.
As for your opinion on the writing-- again, it is your opinion and your choices for the MC drive much of the responses. Unpopular opinion: I actually find playing what I call the "Caretaker Path" (no sex at home) to be a more enriching experience for me. But again, to each their own.