You are 100% correct, i know from personal experience as well that i am way less productive when i work remote then when i am at the office. It's probably even more exaggerated in cases like these where devs that make games like these are basically their own bosses, yes they have patreons that they answer to but we know from massive amount of experience on here that 90% of the patreons are gonna stick with your for the long run even after the game slows down in updates considerably.... so really you dont have anyone to actually answer to.
I was a HUGE fan of these devs, i love the game and especially the girls they crafted in it, but i can not defend this... what the hell did they even spend 2 months "polishing" i wonder now? With all that work and polish i thought the game would have a ton of animation or some complicated renders, but it felt like it had less content than ANY other update we had.
There are games that i dont want to mention in this thread that release TWICE as much content in half the time... hell even 3 times less time. I dont get it...