I'm hoping they didn't, but it feels like they did.
I popped back in to see the changelog, maybe play the game but like...
This game is not progressing. It is not moving forward as a game. The progress is painfully slow, but I wouldn't mind that if the story... actually unfolded? Like, I get the need for scenes, but just making the main quest could work.
Edit:
For shits, I decided to plot out the updates on a graph. This is just the alpha versions, no dungeon tests, and not including any of the actual stuff in the versions to quantify what went into them, so this only strictly refers to the rate at which Technobrake is releasing new versions. The dates are taken from Technobrake's ci-en account.
If you're wondering what the huge gap is between November 2021 and October 2022 is, those are the R updates.
The second gap, around between v0.5 and v0.51 also corresponds to the porting of NymPri to MV.
Setting aside these outliers, it seems the update schedule is still somewhat consistent.