Looking at the duration of the dev cycles (especially this one), it seems the upcoming chapter is most likely gonna be "good" at best and very underwhelming at worst. There are way too many LIs and the plot (in every way) is moving forward at snail's pace. Long dev cycles, a lot of LIs, branching paths and a painfully-slow plot progression are a recipe for disaster. I am all for slow-burn and I really love this game, but, increasingly I'm starting to think that in near future either this game will have an abandoned tag or it's gonna be downvoted to hell. Remains to be seen which comes first. I hope neither does and the devs do course correction while there's still time.