This actually makes sense out of all the stupid shit they're doing. The biggest holdup is that they can't manage scope creep at all. Patreon income optimization heavily incentivizes this too. Basically you make more money pandering to niche demographics and adding a new quest line with a fetish than you do finishing up a quality game and moving on to a new one that's built around getting people to spend on that project in the short term. Long term this heavily impacts your income, he could be making 10-100x his currect take on patreon if he finished a quality game and dropped another one, but during development that would have heavily decreased his month to month take. Endless promises that prevent the game from moving toward completion don't. It's the exact same shit we see with star citizen.Yeah I was referring to that, question is why start a 2nd project when the first isn't even close to being done, seems like just another means to farm.
Starting a new project to put ideas outside your current scope into as you develop is extremely smart. This is how normal non-porn software firms handle this sort of matter. You get an idea that's potentially profitable or desired but outside the scope of the projects you're working on now you put it into an idea board somewhere and if they start to coalesce into another project you start very early work (planning and establishing if it's something with a market, etc) on that without stopping the OG project.
Now what actually happens in most porn projects is that instead of this people work on a project jamming all these new things into it until it gets hard then it starts to impact their mental health and they move on to a new project that isn't so hard (at first). A lot of people think these are scammers and they might be right, but I doubt they are. I think they're just newbies to the project management/software development process from a leadership perspective.
Doesn't make it any smarter to donate to them (I definitely wouldn't and won't) but at the same time I don't think they're actively malicious, they just aren't good at the core of organizing and guiding the project.