Heh, if I'd be pulling Dark Cookie level support, I'd definitely consider starting up a studio. That is some serious funding, you could do a lot with that kind of cash. They're close to pulling in a month what I pull in a year, both jobs combined.
Sadly, that heyday for lewd VNs was already over long before I got started, and even then, only a few very talented devs ever got to such levels as far as I know.
LomL's support sort of leveled out for a year or two now, very slowly creeping down after reaching a peak somewhere in 2021. I'm really, really happy with all that support, which is
way more than I ever thought I'd be getting in a million year, but it's not even close to a level where expanding the operation looks like a smart business choice, regardless of any other consideration.
There never are. Using ren'py in a mostly vanilla way like I do, almost all the fixing that needs to happen is content related: clipping and graphics cleanup, typos, scripting tweaks, typos, missed choice flags, typos, missing acknowledgement of earlier choices, typos, tonal adjustment, typos, continuity errors, typos, and of course typos.