I guess I was wrong when I said:
They are going to divide the update to speed up the release? More like they are going to divide the update into "whatever is more or less ready to release" to please their patreons and "shit not done at all"
There was nothing "more or less ready to release". They talked about update in October and we got napkin sketch in November. Another month passes and we got nothing of content (4 quests) that's "done" and only required translation, editing and bugfixing.
They are loosing patreons but then they keep regaining them over next month which suggests that new people find them, subscribe and leave after a month. I don't really blame them, because I wouldn't work either if people would be willing to give me money for doing nothing but it's a shame, because their art is beautiful and the game has potential.
I mean, how much of this game would be done by now if they'd work on it part-time during weekends over last 2 years of their inactivity? I imagine quite a bit - 8 hours per weekend x 2 people means 64 work hours per month. How long it takes to create one CG (sprite)? 10, 20, 30 hours?
An VN artist takes around ~$200 for a single CG (according to google) and they get $1.8k for a napkin sketch.