My interpretation. I'm still a Summertime Saga fan, it's one of the best games I've played in this genre. I also know that the vast majority of the games I play here are "early access". DC (or rather, the programmer(s) he hired) bit off way more than he/they could chew, obviously. 3-4 months was wildly (stupidly) optimistic. Code never happens that fast.
The adjustment in May 2022 wasn't that bad. Percent dropped only ~3%. I still dropped from his Patreon a few months later, I wasn't expecting it to be out by mid-2023 at least, and it seemed like he was doing fine financially. I figured I gave him enough for 2+ full-price games.
But the drop in November stings. 75% is where we were 18 months earlier.
I'm also not holding my breath. There are a lot of other games to play here. I'll be excited to come back when the update is out, and start a new game. But I'm not stressing about it. He can start having my money again when the update is out.
Does anyone have a more complete history of the entire task breakdown? Not total tasks, but completed+total for art, posing, writing and code? I can update the chart. I'm interested in understanding where/when changed in different kinds of tasks happened.