I'm still of the belief that this dude hasn't done anything towards the new update. I think he's lying and talking about all these renders and work he's been doing to give people hope so they keep supporting him. Hard to get people to pay if he just said "Hey, I haven't done any work on this and probably wont for a long time, but keep paying my bills anyway", although after reading the Discord stuff, he'd probably still have people paying. Absolutely wild.
But yea, this reeks of the thing in school or work where you keep telling people you're working on an assignment knowing full well you haven't even started.