Add on the fact that the majority of people giving "criticism" are just saying "hur dur, game abandoned, dev is milker". Cos I gotta ask, what does doing that actually add to the discussion? I mean, in fairness we've gone more than a year without an update, so there's not much in the way of actual game discussion right now, but I struggle to understand the motivations behind these people... Do they think that their "brave" telling of "the truth" will persuade people to give up support? Are they just trolling? Do they fit into this totally non-suspicious hammok here that is definitely not attached to some form of medieval siege weaponry?
Everyone here regularly knows that the updates take a while, we know what the art looks like and we're (at least as far as I can tell) okay with both of these "issues" that people bring up.
NR is genuinely top-tier as a dev alongside K7 (in my books at least) and although I only jumped into the game just after chapter 4 dropped iirc (so I've only had to wait for 2 updates so far) both of them were definitely worth the wait.
Also, being surrounded by yesmen is a bad thing, but so is being surrounded by people who're constantly putting you down if you honestly believe that a dev is milking, that their game isn't worth waiting for, that they're not actually working on the game, there's an easy to remember proceedure to go through. Scroll up to the top of the page, notice the "unwatch" button, click it, click to confirm. If you're really done with the dev then there's also an "ignore" button you can press too, and then you never have to think about it again, it won't even show up when it updates on the latest updates page!
You wanna talk about the game? Cool, regardless whether it's praise or (actual) criticism, I (at least) want people here talking about the game. You wanna shitpost? Cool, shitpost away, it's fun! You wanna level baseless accusations at the dev and then bitch about the response you get in a forum dedicated to that dev's game? Well, you can do that, but don't act surprised when the regulars there call you out for it (I love when people say stuff like "I'm allowed to post whatever I want, this is a forum!"... When your only real defense of your point is that you're not prohibited from expressing it, maybe reassess your ideas).