Then you bet wrong, and you made an assumption with no statistical facts. I'm a patron and have been for a year. Why did I pledge? Because I've been attending DC's streams for years and I actually appreciate how much work and consistency he puts into his art. I love his passion for the game.
Yet i don't have statistical facts yet you are taking your own case as a generality.
But ok i understand that you like his work as a whole and that he seems passionate toward his game, great i have nothing to say against that.
My point was that the game is derivating from his original point, that the story line is way too long before having any sex stuff going on which can make players grow bored of the game (again maybe your case is different but i assure you that the majority of the average players can get pretty bored if they don't have a minimum of action)
Like for example when i tried to play the first part of the main sotry, i probably spend 2hours reading text and then the last 10mins having the sex scenes. The solution would probably be to increment small "treats" like sex scenes or teasing scenes across the journey of the story line. It would immerse more the player into the story and also provide them all the thing he is searching in an adult game which are mostly sex stuff.
So yeah i understand he wants to build a world and make nice story lines, but still taking too much time when you have cleary all the founds to grow a team that can wrap things up faster. Two updates in a year is way too much to me.
I think DC is probably overwhelmed by the success that is taking his game, 50k$ a month is really huge for a free adult game that runs on a python engine. Small companies have just this one budget for the entire time of their projects and needs to make releases faster.
So yeah even for people who do not pledge for anything, it's totally normal for them to be a bit upset when an update take half a year to release when it's finally just a big disappointment.
I really used to like the game but i think it's golden age is long gone now.