I understand where you're coming from.
I wouldn't be hitching my reputation on this if I hadn't actually been putting in the work on my end. I've written tens of thousands of words so far for this final update across thousands of renders and animations. I'm spending 90% of my free time outside my main job just working through the new images and animations that I get sent.
All that's left is Linda/Bob, Yazmin/Liza, and Sara/Lily. It's gonna be an absolutely hellish March/April for me, but I'll get it done.
You're putting in a ton of work and communicating openly. I believe you about what your goals are and that you're doing what you can to reach those.
However, the point is that you've dangerously hitched your reputation to an end result that isn't tied to the work you've done. We know that a lot of people have put in work on Milfy City. There's no reason to think any of those people were responsible for the egregious failure to maintain any semblance of progress. That means that many others, just like you, put in a lot of work on updates to this game, only to have ICSTOR fail to do his part to cross the finish line. Over and over and over again.
For FIVE YEARS, whenever it's come time for ICSTOR to do his part, he fucks off. He makes a couple of excuses, then disappears until his patron count drops. At that point, he reappears to announce things are different now, and he's definitely still working on Milfy City which will get an update on such and such date. That date rolls around, and boom, ICSTOR fucks off again. Repeat.
If there's an update at all, let alone an update before May, that's cool! But you're not staking your reputation on your ability to deliver, you're staking in on ICSTOR not being ICSTOR.
