The update was perfectly playable with no bugs on my end. It was good, but definitely not worth 9 months. However I still have a lot of goodwill towards the dev, and hope we can go back to 3-4 month releases right next.
Don't tell people to blame me for sharing the update. If you want to play the blame game, I'd blame you for not sharing the game and forcing my hand instead lol. We get so many games and updates here for free because people are willing to share, so in my opinion it makes no sense to enjoy all the games here we get for free and then sit around on a release when it's our turn. I enjoy this dev too, but 9 months is enough time to wait, and my allegiance is with the forum first.