Do you remember how he once said that it is a "passion project" and that the most important thing for him is to release a good update?.. You should actually, that was pretty much every excuse for a patreon delay post in the last 2 years.
Now he says "fuck it" and just adds black boxes over the face instead of going the elaborate route and playing with perspective, angles and objects to hide the face.
The fact that he sees this as the best solution for his game, rather than just giving the MC a face when covering is really that hard, shows me how much of that "passion project" attitude is left. He allegedly "tweaked" various renders of the basketball game for weeks because he wasn't happy with the "flow", but he can accept releasing something like that? This guy is full of shit.
Now we have another temporary solution in the game that the players have to put up with and will certainly be handled differently in the future, or even changed

. Just as the immersion breaking differences between chapters 1 and 2


.
Just think how many devs started for far less complete remakes of their games, which at the same time had far fewer players and supporters. This shows that it is a "passion project". I really don't understand what else he wants to mix up before you can no longer recognize what you're actually playing.