You can conquer the starting province but you could conquer that for many years now. There hasn't been any forward movement for a fairly long time. Don't get me wrong, they are working, giving more options, fleshing out existing routes or reworking parts that were lower quality but Rastedel, the province capital and I assume the final event of the first arc, has been done since mid 2020 (though imo it lacks a proper epilogue).
At this point they are slowly fleshing out the Astarte battle, adding choices and sex scenes as rewards for following the different routes which is the penultimate battle of the arc. They are also working on Goblin recruitment which is more politics than army building which is an additional option to the orcs (supposedly the easier option? ) And also fleshing out the last few NPC arcs; I think what is left there is the final Andras NTR event, a few more Fey events and whatever is happening with Helayna (where I've lost track of the routes tbh).
While I'd rather they move on, I do think that after the denouement of the Rastedel battle and before moving to the next arc there needs to be a proper epilogue with a) more lore exposition and b) rewards for following routes in the form of sex scenes, probably with Alexia, Andras and Jezera respectively and at least a couple of variants for each of those. Also the Rastedel battle does to give Rowan more agency
