Yeah this entire delay is simply because they don't think steam will let them put their game on the platform if there are pictures of real band posters within the game. So this entire time, they've been remaking and re-rendering the early game. Absolute braindead decision that has cost them a lot of goodwill.
"Oh I'm so burned out with all this redoing the same thing over and over" - Well no fucking shit, Einstein. They claimed they had 3000 renders to redo, and that it was taking 4 hours for each one. Photoshop could do it in a week, AI could do it in an afternoon once you set it up right - but nooooo.
They're just assuming that it will be popular & make them a boatload of money on steam, too. That phase has been and gone, people aren't stuck inside due to covid anymore.
I dunno about you guys, but I sure as shit ain't buying it. Monumentally stupid decisions aside, the guy's ghosted for a good while now and I don't reward bad devs.