It is very out of place to remove half of the game that you are not specifically interested in, leaving aside those who do like it, the game is in first person most of the time so the differences between playing as a man or a woman are minimal, If the development of the game has been delayed it will be for other reasons, if it were as you say, the route with a male protagonist would have already finished.
Half the game? Try not even 30%. Between the different renders, and dialog the difference is extremely minimal. I've played every path multiple times, Think of it this way, if theres something holding up production, possibly threatening the longevity of your project, if cutting the least progressed, and least played path to adhere to a better release schedule is exactly what any company would do. You won't add a feature that will be used by a small percentage of the userbase if it pushes back your release date constantly. If they could just divy up the paths among the team more effeciantly this wouldn't be an issue either. If said team is constantly behind schedule and their outline requirements for being done are generally the same as others (Which is what you should do if your truly about making an equal path game, not sparse content here and there, because it shows shortsightedness in terms of being able to have that path and adhere to a decent schedule. Instead they made a cash grab towards the traps and women now they can't deliver on time.)
If you were the boss of someone who did the things that is going on here, constant release pushback, false content promises, log update negligence, when you know this person can deliver on time, and in a thrifty manner. But this employee now does these things constanty. If this were real life, I would swear that the person is on drugs. Either that or the less attractive thought process, they are milking their patrons because they have wrote themselves into a corner. Which honestly, who doesn't write an outline draft for the entire main plot points of a story arc that has a day timelimit. I already gave my thought's on the writing on night 4 and 5. It feels almost like someone new took over the writing process.
If something is going on internally with their grp, the dev should be vocal instead of stressing out their patron base.