No specific news- not recently at least. Last post being on the 10th. But PG himself confirmed the end of June so one can hope it can still happen, give or take a few days.
Just my 2 cents: A game like Lisa is a fusion of two worlds. There is the Visual Novel aspect which heavily relies on CG crafting, story writing and other jazzy basics. And then there is the RPGM aspect that makes things a tad bit complicated. You have to create maps, populate zones, code in events, add switches, generate "IF" states that govern when those switches will be active or inactive based on player progress, route autonomous movement if an event takes character control, make sure those new criteria aren't clashing with the old coding etc.
And that is just on the top of my head. I am fairly sure the real thing has a few more caveats as well like constant playtesting to make sure everything is working as programmed.
Not really defending delays or kissing dev's asses here btw. Just theorizing why things might take a while to cook before they get served.
Those are two wise cents. Hell, I'd give you a nickel for that.
I tried to do a CYOA in Twine using variables to track player choices instead of just separate paths. Super simple, no big stat blocks or dice rolls or anything, just a way to let a handful of characters react differently to a couple dozen decisions.
The fucking nightmare of dependent <if>s was just overwhelming. They nest and multiply. You keep having to add more to control how they interrelate, separately from your original variables. Fuck one thing up, change your mind on one passage, and you spend a day trying to find all the places you just altered that simply don't work.
I can't imagine the hairball PG must have had to cut through to remove all the Paul and bar rape stuff. Think of how many characters he would have wanted to have reactions to those events, how many passages that referenced <if>s that didn't even control an event in that passage, just tracked whether Lisa had been raped because of another event that affected that passage, etc, etc.
For my money PG gets a pass on update times at least through this year. He is clearly working his ass off on the game.