Let's assume the dev isn't milking and has never lied about progress reports. Then what's left?
The first thing that I can think of is that Snats actually listened to feedback of 0.1. If so, then dev may be altering parts of 0.1 and/or editing parts of 0.2. However, why not just say that in a dev post/discord? With the amount of activity here, I'd imagine that at least one person would have noticed such a comment, but AFIAK no one has mentioned this. Furthermore, from my experience with the dev and his discord community, he's more likely to ignore the feedback anywhere that's not on discord. So, unless his discord is also enraged (unlikely), I have my doubts.
The second possibility is that the animations are taking longer than expected. Which, throws up doubts about the previous progress reports and character statements. It also just furthers my belief that animations are a complete waste of time and needlessly increases development time with no real added benefit.
Third is that Snats died, got sick or injured, or otherwise is incapable of completing the update. Incoming ambiguous image of an "injured" body part.
What other explanations are there? I really dislike Snats, and have little hope that future updates will solve the annoyances I had with version 0.1. That said, I want the game to succeed anyway and I'm willing to play devils advocate if needed.