I'm not on the discord but out of curiosity how can you actually verify Naughty is doing anything he actually says he is doing? Is it just the development chart you guys post here because if it is it seems like I could just as easily say that I have contributed 5k hours to this update and make you a chart. That being said I don't think Naughty is like Icstor but blind faith is how we get bad devs like Icstor that negatively effect all new devs because people have been burnt monetarily by the bad ones.
Not sure on what you want to know. Both patreon and discord is for me read only as i don't have the time to be everywhere. But from what i have seen we can verify that naughty works on the game based on the following stuff.
1. Wallpapers. (Would be kinda stupid to make those but not work on the game.)
2. Discussions about problem who arised during working on the update.
3. Venting on problems that arise during development time.
4. Patreon posts about writers block (yes that is a real issue if you overwork yourself as writer)
And from the top of my head alot of other stuff that you witness on discord i am to lazy to describe in full detail.
Basically the amount of effort on both discord and patreon just to scam people would actually be more work than to just work on the game and ignore every question, critique and help attempts from the community.
While there is no 100% to verify the amount of work done till we play the update. So far nothing i saw, read or experienced indicates anything shady going on.
If people however wanna imply stuff (which some do) and they argue that is their right. Naughty and the forum mods also have the right to ban, silence or remove said individuals from discord, patreon, this board and this thread.