You can't just throw money and people at something to make work happen faster.
A unified skeleton means lower quality animations. And the characters that are being created will have a role in the story.
First: How does a unified skeleton deminish anmiation Quality? I can tell you it doesn't.
Second: Sure you can throw more people and more money at something to get it done faster, thats how companies grow.
And after now almost seven years a game may slowly should get out of early access or at least have something to show for in the gameplay department. If they would call it a Sex and Sandbox framework everything would be fine but a game it is not.
I support alot of projects which are in early access but if they don't deliver I rewoke my subscriptions.
See I work in Project Management and Business Analysis and if they're not lazy or just milking naive patreons they have a severe lack in leadership, process optimization, division of labour and/or a project schedule. That is if they really plan to release a Product in due time.