The whole incest stuff was years ago.. that's why landlady/tenant trend exists now.. What he meant with his question is that last update felt a lot smaller than the previous one.. and tbh, he's right. I don't know what's going on, but DC fails all the things he's set out to do.. Teachers? For some reason not all of them.. Debbie? what? 6months still not done?
There's a few reasons.
What I call the "code team" have improved in the preview tech update era (there's no longer a 1-2 month delay between DC drawing something new, and posing it and putting it into game updates now), but they're still painfully ineffective.
However, art really is the bottleneck now. DC just doesn't draw enough in the two month periods. He does draw off stream, but likely not anywhere near as much as he should, and he shows little motivation to kick it into a higher gear. Add to the fact that this cycle DC got caught up in drawing "continuity" scenes (e.g. if Jenny is pregnant when DC gets knocked out by the mob, she'll show up in appropriate look), of which there were several of these.
It's funny, DC used to say "art is the bottleneck" frequently back in the day. Make no mistake, it was
a bottleneck, but his code team was awful, and he was just using it as a way to deflect from them and the idea he needed to hire more help. Now that it is far more
the bottleneck, Mr. "I spent over a year drawing 16:9 backgrounds for locations that won't be used for the next 5 years" doesn't mention it so much anymore.
As I recall there was something recently about DC rewriting the story to go from the "*wink-wink*-Landlady-and-Roommate-but-you-know-what-I-mean" to turning them into an actual landlady and roommate, with no incest insinuated. Might be mistaken though.
It was one of his co-developers who sort of mentioned something like that. To be honest, having played this update, this is actually far more *wink wink* than the prior one. Honestly, the incest patchers have likely had a far easier time than they imagined, with many instances of just swapping out "landlady" for "mom/mother" and it flowing perfectly. I have no idea if they changed their mind, or if he was on one.