It was the same with those thousands of renders when he was absent for two years.
He switches to large updates to have less stress and more creative flexibility.
So he is working on a large update but has to delay it for various reasons.
He 'adds' content as compensation, so the render count rises further.
At some point, he steps on the brake saying he's not making progress so the render count doesn't explode too much.
Then he switches to smaller updates to make it 'more manageable', because the pressure to release a large update is too much stress.
If you actually count how many images he can technically/self-proclaimed produce in a certain period of time - the meant-to-be total number of new renders weirdly coincides with the time he needs, between redoing stuff and new delays, to release the old renders in chunks.
At the point everything is released, he could have produced roughly the number of renders previously promised during the stretched-out release process alone.
At the start, people were willing to believe he doubted himself, and all the time was really invested in rerendering the same images again and again.
But 'trust me bro' loses some of its convincingness if everything you can see and witness no longer supports that claim.
After those small updates, he switches to large updates, because this constant stress and missing creative flexibility aren't sustainable.
And the cycle repeats. Too bad, life is too much stress for BD.
