Digging into his posts, it doesn't seem like he'll ever hire help for coding. He has even said that he has gotten "generous" offers for help in coding but he turned them down due to him being a terrible project manager and not knowing what he'd even tell them to do. Thus it's a one man job. Although he will take help in art assets like backgrounds and clothes.
Sucks imo, if he could straighten his shit out and lay out some kind of plan he'd likely be finished on Emma by now
instead of having to spend 4-6 months re-coding the whole thing and taking an extra month between releases to bug test them just so he could squeeze out a room, a bit of dialogue, and that hand stuff . So I can understand where your frustration is coming from.