Most people would be perfectly happy with a curt "when it's ready". At least more happy than they are with continually broken promises.
Simple, money. I know many of us still try and give Inno the benefit of the doubt but it's pretty simple. Sure giving long more realistic deadlines or adopting a simple,"it'll be ready when it's ready" approach would be much more morally honest. However what that kind of approach tends to do is seriously make subscribers and patrons evaluate if that monthly cost is worth it. If you know not to expect any new content for months then it makes seems to stop paying until you get closer to that deadline, especially if you don't expect any meaningful progress updates in between. However making it seem like the next big update is "just around the corner" makes it easier to justify staying subbed. The constant excuses, apolagzing, is all crafted sympathy begging to give the illusion of a sturggling artist who just needs more time and focus, and not someone just interested in keeping the gravy train afloat. Now of course any rational person would have long realized that Inno's taking the piss when it comes to deadlines but one look into the discord will tell you that Inno stans are far from rational. Inno's actions have long stopped being the actions of a simple ammeter dev way in over their head as we see so often on site and have now passed into the relam of lazy/greedy creator milking suckers for an easy payday. A shame because I still think LT has a lot of potential and despite some truly horrendous writing lately(seriously wtf has been the last few npc quests?wattpad writers could do better) I'm still invested in seeing this world grow and story pay out, I just have no faith that will happen with Inno at the helm. But hey hundreds of people are apparently happy tossing money away each month to enable someone's dream for working less than 30 days a year so what the hell do I know.I just don't understand why she keeps tossing out deadlines at this point, literally only give a percentage marker or something to show give an idea on how long it might take since she is so terrible at hard deadlines
Or she could just give a deadline months away so there's no excuse, when she misses it or if she finishes early, she can relax or release it early
Honestly, the most egregious thing is that at this point, is that she should have some understanding of how long it should reasonably take her to do an update, so I don't understand why she keeps giving out these deadlines that everyone knows she won't be able to do
TLDR' Inno is an average game developer but she is a BRILLIANT BUSINESSWOMAN