I've been thinking a bit about this update since my last post and the pessimist in me feels that this might be the beginning of the end of the game. All the negative reactions in this thread (which are imho justified so don't get me wrong) won't help with the devs motivation and here comes my optimist side into play.
My optimist view of all of this is that the drop in dev speed wasn't for malicious reasons like wanting to milk their Patreons but for loss of motivation/burnout reasons and if that is the case then things can get better and hopefully will get better.
We all know that their renders are great and that their characters are gorgeous and we also know that they can work at a good speed because they have shown us that they can with the past updates.
And now to a suggestion for the devs: You guys really need to cut down a bit on the superfluous renders.
The scene of Ms. Hill cooking and stroking the cucumber was great because it showed the player that Ms. Hill might have some conflicting and dirty thoughts about the MC but all the other renders of the cooking after that were just unnecessary.
Also that little animation of the camera panning over the body of Bree in the bedroom of Ms. Hill was nice but again unnecessary.
Do those little things make the game better? Yes they do but they also cost time and effort to make.
And if you ever want to finish this game in a somewhat timely manner then you might want to cut down on stuff like this.
I really hope that this was just an exception and you guys will get back to a good form for the next update.
Summer Heat is imho one of the top 1% of AVNs, it is rare for such a high quality AVN to even appear and it has the potential to blow the majority of other AVN out of the water it just needs to get actually finished for that to happen