no one belive this...really. in fact it's been some time from chapter 10 update..and seems we need to wait something like 3 months for chapter 11...so i doin't really belive this extra working time story
Am i gonna have to bring out the spreadsheet again...
Every update is bigger then the last, this has been true since the beginning of this game. More scenes, more story, more animations. Just look into the folders of each update and you'll see how many more files it has then the update before it.
Early PV, the game took 2 months to a chapter, then 3, then 4, then 5 up to where we are now at about 6 months an update. The 5 months a chapter even happened before what ifs were a thing, so that throws "what if's are taking up time" theory out the window.
Here's volume 5 to 10. notice how each update there are more renders? hell, between V5 and 10, it's almost doubled. These are just the still images. Animations have probably over tripled or more between chapter 10 and chapter 5. actually, What if 8 has 111 animations on it's own!
To top it off, we have 2 major holidays in the middle of CH11. Thanksgiving and Christmas. So of course it's going to slow down development time.
So i'm sorry you don't believe facts, but what ifs are not the reason chapters take so long to develop. compare this to any other game and the amount of work the dev puts in. there is no comparison. other games can take just as long to release a chapter and the quality or quantity of the chapter won't come close.