It does not hurt to ask, and before a project is abandoned i would rather like to see the dev give his approval to another person to finish his project and even if it would take longer, i would wait patiently, there are enough one man projects where devs take time to develop their projects, and they are not all stretching development to milk their patreons sometimes it is a "one man show" and they might be not full time devs, so better a finished "The Tyrant" game with the ideas from S.A.Z. mod then another project that gets abandoned. And if that would work i hope that S.A.Z. would go full dev on game and less on doing mods for other games, and even then, still better then a game without any hopes that it will be finished at all.