I fear it's more like he never really tried. He seems to know jack shit about proper coding and development, so what should be his best quality (actually trying to deliver stuff in a timely manner, unlike so many Patreon milkers who delay releases for months because they have to rework everything for basketball reasons, then refine it for another eternity because... playoffs, I guess?) becomes something of a negative.
He really needed to stop the "just churning out RAGS stuff" cycle years ago, when RAGS was already well past its least-terrible-before date, to focus on learning to properly work with (not necessarily) Twine and actually step up his game with the conversion. But no, the one guy with a blatantly obvious perfectly good reason to suspend the release cycle for a couple of months wouldn't