Btw, the analogy with the Boss and the Employee, who misses deadlines has been working for a long time: When the BD-Employee misses the deadline, the BD-Boss deprives him of his salary, pausing pledge on Patreon [imagines how BD speaks to himself in different voices]
BD was one of those devs, who make more popular this rule of good dev, and now other developers have start to do same more often, than before. Same with communication with the VN community - there is more feedback from developers and the community - they become less silent for half a year and even periodically listen to what people think about how and where the plot is developing.
Silence for the weak and unsure of what they are doing - communication leads them astray and makes them rush from side to side, trying to please everyone, those who are more or less confident in the idea of what they wants to say and show, in communication receive confirmation or refutation of the correctness / erroneousness of the techniques used, improving the plot \ visual.
Now the only chance to find out the approximate release date of the next update is to find out the approximate wedding date + ~honeymoon + ~month to return to work = ~approximate release date
BD was one of those devs, who make more popular this rule of good dev, and now other developers have start to do same more often, than before. Same with communication with the VN community - there is more feedback from developers and the community - they become less silent for half a year and even periodically listen to what people think about how and where the plot is developing.
Silence for the weak and unsure of what they are doing - communication leads them astray and makes them rush from side to side, trying to please everyone, those who are more or less confident in the idea of what they wants to say and show, in communication receive confirmation or refutation of the correctness / erroneousness of the techniques used, improving the plot \ visual.
Now the only chance to find out the approximate release date of the next update is to find out the approximate wedding date + ~honeymoon + ~month to return to work = ~approximate release date