well, i dont think he does not care for his fans, had a few pm´s with him, i rather think it´s not realy worth for him to tell everystep he does, cuz it means he needs to pay for a translator that you can read what he writes anyway, he does not speak english as far as i regonized, the patreon posts are translated aswell from the translator he hired for the game. On ci-en he could do so but even there he does not, he also writes stuff on twitter or his Homepage. He just tells us when he makes progress, thats fine for me, as long as he tells us at least something once in a while. The Encyclopedia blog post he write some times just feel like he forces himself to do something, i admire that he puts his passion into the development of other species and the game at the same time. I´m fine with how he does things atm. After all we will have a new Demo soon most likely.