I take the changes as something that will make the consistency of good writing easier and the flow of character progression better, he kinda backed himself onto a corner with the recent chapter update. this'll make it so quality remains consistent easier.Yes, absolutely is. You can create random ass images with AI, and you can create quality images via the use of multiple tools and techniques involved. That alone is much more time consuming, and that's without him even touching photoshop - which he's doing a ton of postwork. All the neat transitions, split-images with fancy borders that give the whole thing a comic-book look, image corrections (he has a background in 3d-design) and god knows what. All that and more... It's so much more effort compared to a simple prompt with a handful of loRA's and batch generation going for a hit or miss approach.
Abyss' posted a pretty good timelapse video showcasing how much work and steps can go into a single image, and that is without postwork in photoshop:
The reason he's up there is because of the quality he's able to produce. Consistency with AI can be difficult to achieve, but that's not really why the rework was required. He's decided to change some scenes on how they play out, not necessarily because of the art (though a couple images were in need of a touch-up IMO). Though that goes back to the quality control I've mentioned before and it's a learning process.
I mean.. CG's doing it the way he wants to do it. Would be pretty entitled to tell him how he has to do anything, especially being a pirate. His subscribers are happy and he's following his vision for the game. He's not lying, he's not making any fake promises or Patreon goals that are never followed up on, so there's hardly anything one can be mad about. Even subs get their money back if they're not happy. That alone is so rare in the AVN industry, I respect it a lot.
See my above statement. His subscribers are happy, and those who aren't can get a refund. What you want and what he himself and his financial supporters want or are okay with might be two different things. This is getting into the realm of pure entitlement. Like, you can obviously have/share your opinion, but we can't tell him what he has to do.