This is the progress report. Excuse the formatting as I am on mobile and tried to put it together.
"ok there's 3 main girls and 5 mini-characters. 2 of the mini-characters are guys so ignore them. a lot of the time spent has been making a bunch of dialogue for everyone that happens when you talk to them under certain conditions. this behaves similarly to the thing I was talking about for ToT combat although its not in combat. creating the means of selecting and cycling the dialogues (and handling temporary, looping small-scope RNG in general) was some time spent and thankfully something I can port back to Cobra. Bo created a cute new... "mechanic" lets call it. so I'm spending time fleshing that out, which is fortunately easy because it basically boiled down to a few more variations of it. I also added the mechanic to one of the other girls since I thought it fit. The original game was basically broke. everything was hard coded in a really clunky manner. so I had to basically rebuild Maggie and Ada from scratch, so that took time. everyone underestimates how long design takes. "
Please stop taking the piss out of Koda. He has been working hard, he gave the progress report.
Well I bear no animosity towards Koda, especially not being a patreon I think he could take indefinite hiatuses and have a demo per decade and I still wouldn't have a right to be upset. The reason I make fun of Koda is because at this point him delaying stuff has become a meme. And he's not trying in the slightest to change that reputation. Out of nowhere he announced a side project nobody expected and he already delayed it 2 times in the same week. Since this wasn't something people were looking forward to, and after everything that has happened, why would you announce it before you were done?
He really gives the impression of somebody who keeps procrastinating, underestimates how long design would take, doesn't want to admit he procrastinated and instead says he did a bunch of stuff, announces a date for when he thinks he'll be done and when that day comes he finds out he hasn't even done what he already announced. The spring cleaning update is the most prime example of that, but it's far from the only one.
So do I believe he's been working hard? I believe he's working hard now, since people tend to work on overdrive once they stop procrastinating, but if you tell me he's been working hard this entire time then I'd probably need to see the entire spring cleaning for all the characters he originally announced along with that side project really soon before I even start entertaining this idea.