Its a shame, devs a great artist. Hopefully once the war is over he might return
Putting all the technical and professionalism thing in the middle.
Why the fuck these good artists go radio silent out of the blue or simply slow down the pace if they not gonna commit to deliver an schedule of periodic updates for transparency and for keeping their living sustain flow of income.
Yes, They human beings with feelings, family, GF, BF hell even married or already with siblings for heck sakes!
The point is this kind of things can be handled with time and proper organization in order to prevent a discommunication between game developer and it's supporters. This is a thing i been seeing on some popular games that still getting income and no news from the devs or even medium or little games but with minimum communication due what i mentioned above.
The point is they not entitled to share continuous updates
´´depending on the game they making then that's different´´
But when comes to release content and status reports is important to not play a smoke screen and expect people to take the bait and months later expect nothing whatsoever.
TL;DR I don't understand why a good art & animation game ends up with a slow development and a tiny window of communication from the devs regardless if they dealing with IRL stuff or not and how they not handle proper measures to stop getting money from people expecting something AKA pay me for doing nothing.
Bitter reality but Money talks and it's hard to find honest developers with ethics who know when to pause pledges if they gonna deal out of nowhere with their issues then resume them, make an update about it and keep working on the game.