I honestly use to love this game and was looking forward to updates..i also used to be a patron of it. But i gave up on it the characters i looked forward the most were April and Nina and to this day i still wait on them having any story..it seems there is time allowed to create new characters and storyline for them but not develop proper storyline for characters who were there at the origin of the game. I still have it on my watch list as i still have lingering affection for it. But, i don't have any expectation anymore.
Here's the thing, what comes next, is voted on by the supporters, so if you want them to make what you want, not supporting them isn't the way to go to get there.
Most of those 'new' characters were already in the game too.
Priti, the one being developed this time, is incredibly popular, and like the the others in this one, have been in there the whole time, the only new people were side and background people who were needed to make the scenes work.