Then don´t state it as a fact. Its just what the dev says. And you seem to believe him everything.

Haha, ....don´t worry he prepared half a dozen excuses for the next update for you gullible patreons....
Sorry but i tend to not believe anything anymore this dev says after some big red flags like:
- Burner accounts defending and trying to calm down people
- banning anybody with critisism at their discord
- and the biggest red flag, after 15 months of development a user asked about the slow development and the devs answer was like "What? We are surprised that people think development is slow?!"........ Hehehe...... really... first time he heard about something like that after 15 months???

Come on....
Sorry, but this dev doesn´t seem honest to me. I was a fan of this dev before, but to ignore all these red flags and more you have to be on gullible levels i cant reach.
If this game would be a mainquest for the dev the updates would come in a 3-4 months cycle.
This game is only a sidequest for the devs, that pays more and more the longer he doesn´t touch it.