I've no idea what was Hyao's initial plan of LD, but clearly you are expecting something LD is not - it's not a VN you can read from start to end.
It's inspired by “Flexible Survival” or “Trials in Tainted Space", while the latter has strong plot to drive the game going, the former does not.
There are also tons of games just use itself as a platform to sell monthly contents (which they might've not even planned a closure), and it seems LD became one of them.
LD might started with good plots, Hyao seems not plan pursuing it.
LD's struggle rn, more of content draught, even as fillers, they are not meaty enough.
No idea about financial/exposure aspect, but if he stops putting out "monthly 5 minutes' read", using 3 or 5 months to work for a more substantial updates, it's actually better.
5 months' of 5 minutes' read will only hv negatively impacts on the game - which is already going on for a long while