I think it's unfair to call an amateur dev who has on multiple occasions pointed out how this isn't a priority to him over stuff like his education and other real-life commitments lazy. Sure, progression has been extremely slow and continues to be somewhat of a crawl but he's been more and more active over the past few months with progress reports coming in quite regularly, the most recent of which was actually less than 2 weeks ago. From what I understand, one of the main reasons he withdrew from interacting with players so hard originally is because of exactly this kind of pressure and entitlement a lot of people project.
If he's not fast enough for you then don't pledge every month, or at all, and if you aren't pledging then what are you losing?