If its just toxic screeching about milking patreons, or the flaws of the patreon system writ large we are pretty far off from the game.
Even then, the overall tone of the discussion had degraded to intolerable degrees and the discussion about the devs work ethic overshadowed everything else. I wrote a while back that this thread is meant to inform and to discuss the game, not the process or dev. And I stick by that. Delays suck, I can understand that you want to make your displeasure known, but this forum is not the venue for it. Contact the developer, either via discord if you are a patron, or per pn if you believe he checks his forum account.
And I see no point anymore in rehashing for the thousandth time how the art is great, the writing funny and the update schedule atrocious. We know. We all know.
I will be happy to one day see ver. 8.xx behind the thread name, and until then I will be content with the previews. I pay fuck all for the game, I will pledge for the month he releases and one more, and I recommend this system to everyone else. Just be pragmatic and stop brigading. Reward good behavior with your cash if you enjoy a product, punish bad behaviour by withholding cash, even if you like the product. Or be honest enough with yourself to admit that you don't care about the bad behaviour because you love the product just that much. Its not hard, you do it every time you go to the supermarket.
How about a bit of speculation for a change? Will MC finally bag Maki and Elizabeth? I personally am betting yes for Elizabeth and teasing almost there scenes for Maki.