I doubt we will see an update in January.
So far for 6 years there was never an update in January.
They simply will put a small update in December-like one character and bugs fix.
Or release normal size update in February.
that is true, but he changed his update cycle to bi monthly and still managed to be 1 whole update behind, further more the update that followed had the same amount of content the others had, while taking 2 month a break a year. Sometimes people fail to realize, that the amount of content you get each update is not much for 2 month of work.
I do know that their game code is nightmare fuel and updating or bugfixing is alot of work, but the actual content you get per update (3 Outfits for predrawn character) and 4-6 with facial variation could be done in 10 work days. Look at his streams, it takes him literally 1,5-2,5 hours to draw a full scene, with coloring. If you consider that and you are generous and add coding and 5 days for writing text, its around 15 days of work at max with 5-6 hours a day.
I dont want to shit on them, hell they made 1 of the best 18+ games out there, but I do get a bit salty for them changing their release cycle, while delaying updates and removing interesting stuff (danger level) the game.
If they are genuin working on this the coding had to become so bad they have to code and playtest it for up to 3 weeks and then a complete rebuild would make more sense.
Though I do have no rights to complain, because I stopped supporting them 2-3 years ago.