The chances of the dev coming back to this are about as high as me shitting out gold bars and buying my own person island where i'll keep my lesbian harem of ninja maids to protect me.
I'll also travel everywhere by helicopter because i've seen Jaws and fuck sharks, they aint getting me.
my monitoring of this thread as well as a couple others, are for carry over by other artists and coders. the original approach to this game is too good to stagnate.