Not exactly what you're saying but it definitely has shades of the 'sunk cost fallacy'.
I'm happy to play an update when it drops, but this game seriously smacks of a lack of focus and intentionality. The episodic model of release, and patreon as a funding model, really leads to this. When you compare to what he was going for in the early stages, which really seemed like it was going to be another gradual corruption style trainer thing, with what's happening now it shows a gradual decline in artistic direction and purpose. For all the lewd content, this is the h-game equivalent of a sit-com at this point. He can keep dragging things out indefinitely because there's nothing really planned long term, it seems, just iterating on the general idea of "sluts in space" with no clear idea of where it's heading beyond smashing characters together in ribald ways and throwing in a new one whenever it gets stale.
I don't blame the dude for pushing out content when he has no clear goal, I imagine his livelihood is pretty tied to patreon tips at this point and straight jobs suck, but I feel like he needs to step away for a bit and actually plan something before he can make something as coherent as pt or wt again. Producing content without a passion or clear goal in mind leads to... this mess.
tldr update good, game bad, I'm not mad I'm just disappointed