By "hire anyone else to speed things up" I meant another artist, which he hasn't done. For most updates the art is what takes a long time, not posing or writing. The team also needs another coder, there were 2 at one point (RIP dogeek), now there is only one and the majority of the work for this update is coding. I even tried years ago to help DC by finding artists able to work at his level but he said "idk I'll see". Which I'm guessing is a mix of not caring, not trusting me on art (makes sense) and him wanting to have his art the way he likes it.
Also I wasn't aware there were extra people since It doesn't say it on the list of devs. I thought junior devs were brought in to replace the people that left previously. Though it is a good thing if he did hire extra, even though it's posing.
Wish I could help but unfortunately I can only do audio engineering/music and was told by DC to wait till the game's done then communicate with Aoi. So don't get me wrong I have nothing against DC personally, though I do have my criticisms (just like everyone else).
"Patreon lied to us again" huh? Who said Patreon lied? I certainly didn't.