I much prefer the new look, both the characters and the UI, but I'm cautious about the decision to add Telltale style choices. Not even they, a real game studio, managed to make meaningful choices work and I don't think Snats realizes what a mess cascading choices becomes later down the line. Update pace seems bad at the moment, but I'm not paying so can't complain,
Sometimes I wonder what the sweetspot for productivity is for Patreon devs income, enough to live but not enough to get carefree? Hard to think of one who's productivity didn't fall off hard after they started raking it in.