As a dev you have a couple of options if something IRL prevents you from doing work on a game that's receiving monthly subscriptions:
- Pause automatic transactions until you're able to continue working on the game
- Outsource the work to someone else with a revenue split (i.e. 30-70)
- Work through it
However, there is no incentive for these two to change their current workflow since they still make more per month than most people in the US. While I'd love to be proven wrong, I have a strong suspicion that this update will be permanently stuck in the "polish" phase since it's easy to just arbitrarily change the numbers to reflect any amount of progress.