Yeah, we have plenty of news in hand.
He is finished both neighbour and Caroline animations and some of Celia animations. According to our trustful dev, only a few animations are left and the game will be released end of this month.
He did not say "the game will be released end of this month" in his recent post.
He didn't mention his 10 day estimate or his end of the month guarantee at all. He said "very soon" which in my mind means
at least another week.
You have to read between the lines at this point. As you pointed out,
he said he still needs to do Celia's animations, but some of them are done. Celia is what, about 40% of the update? So if some means ~25% done that means there'd still be 30% of
all the animations left to do. I fathom that takes longer than 2-3 days.
I get
JackHammer's point about waiting for November 1st before calling it a delay. But if he'd be able to release the update with the animations by tomorrow and finally make one of his own deadlines, I believe he would have said so. Instead he is simply ignoring the goalposts he set up.