We don't really operate in the real world. We tried to hire look-a-likes to give that a whirl, but they wanted a lot more money than we make. Especially when we said we would save money by playing the MC ourselves.
As for our deadlines, we stopped setting them officially... mainly because we have difficulty getting everything we want done by then for one reason or another honestly. If you ask me it's that real world thing messing with us again. But the good news is we already provided the links for the release on our patreon last month. People could save them if they needed/wanted to unsub because we always would rather choose to delay to release a good update later, than a meh update now.
As for where we are at. I updated the beta this weekend (the second run is mainly to make sure we didn't break anything) all but 2 scenes are entirely complete and a single animation we added late we felt was needed (it should be rendered today). I wouldn't get my hopes up for the weekend (our testers have lives too), but it is close. Again we will top our biggest release, number of images, number of sex acts, etc.