Which leads to more being abandoned due to lack of money, which leads to more people not trusting and waiting like you said, which leads to more being abandoned due to lack of money, etc. A vicious cycle. Another reason some take forever for updates is the dev still has to have a regular job to pay bills, live, etc so time to work on the game is limited.I suppose that's nice for you, but I'm sure I can say that a sizeable amount of us AVN enjoyers and most specially the vast majority of people who have actually paid their hard-earned money to AVN devs for their work no longer do so until the game is fully completed or at least near full completion
I definitely wouldn't support one who had abandoned a game in the past unless after that they completed one. I also have to have played and REALLY liked the current one first.