Never really understood why this game is so popular.
It has nothing, besides, good renders and animations to it
Here's why I think it became popular, basically brand and timing.
When the 0.1 of Milfy City came out it came at a peculiar time and with a great start
1) From someone who already had a reputation of making these games
2) Switching over to Renpy while the majority was still using the hated RPG Maker
3) Incest I think it was not as overused in that moment, also Patreon I am fairly sure hadn't started on cracking it heavily just yet
4) Great looking renders and actual animations
Again consider the context, take the most liked F95 games and consider how young they all are, now consider how most games were: 1) Using RPGM 2) No animations 3) Very Sober looking renders
5) A first release with lots of content and characters and the gameplay being a far cry from the long walks in RPGM and the money grinding.
Unfortunately ICSTOR blew its chance, it still made and is making money, but if he actually took it as seriously as a job should be he would have made more, money makes money, look at Phillygames, who said that he pretty much blew what he made off Depraved awakening by licensing music for Broken Dreams which is giving him more than 10 times what he was making while developing DA.
What does he want? I don't know but I can't see this scenario in the long term being more rewarding than if he had actually worked on the game.