It's not empty it's the heart of the issue. He didn't then and isn't now because this game is DC's personal cash cow, that's why it's called milking! It's paying off his house and putting money in his kid's college fund; the longer he can drag out finishing SS the better it is for him, because he knows the day the game is finished is the day that cash cow dies. Hiring more people and getting things done in a timely manner works against him, just like adding in more females to lewd, even though he hasn't used all those on his current roster, works in his favor. If you can't see this it's because you're choosing to be willfully blind to the issue at hand.
As for me, I actually want to see the game finished, polished, and delivered instead of being the porn equivalent of Duke Nuke'em Forever and considered played out by the time it's finally done, or worse never gets finished at all, and is simply abandoned.