I suspect the worst part of waiting is that this is going to 'normalize' this length of dev cycle. Don't get me wrong, even good devs establish market share and then back off to a more sustainable pace (look at the rate Caribdis was cranking out Eternum updates for a while). But the issue here is twofold. Firstly the lies and excuses are so blatantly obvious that anyone paying attention can see this isn't a one off situation. This is how its going to be going forward. Secondly, even if they sped up development considerably, they weren't particularly fast devs in teh first place. Let's be generous and assume they never leave the current city, don't add ANY more LIs and scale down some of their ambitions with the plot and sex scenes. You're still looking at a decade of development time just to finish the main story. Not flesh all the characters, not deliver all the content that is indicated in the gallery and certainly harem content that is even more labor intensive.Do you know what the worst thing about so much waiting is? That when it comes out (if it comes out) there will only be 10 scenes and that's where the update ends. Yes, you are going to see important dialogues that help you understand the story (lie, no one reads that, we just put next and save in case the decision we make is wrong) from my perspective, we are only going to see a part of this character. It's not that he's going to be part of the fixed harem (or maybe he is) that you can go and fuck whenever you want, but he's going to be limited. That is, he is not going to see pregnancy or anal, he is not going to see the entire development of the story. The truth is that I don't contribute to the patreon and I consume it pirated but hey I would like them to at least finish it...
I won't go so far as to call this a scam. But I will say that many scams and unfinished passion projects (that wrongly IMO collect thousands of dollars for subs without being worked on) share a few basic tenets. Namely, large, almost unbelieveable promises followed by some content, followed by a steady stream of excuses and 'unavoidable delays' until the project just sort of dies. Legitament projects almost always end, either by being finished in some form or another, or the dev ANNOUNCES they are stopping the project.