I stopped pledging to him a while ago. To me it seems some creators will push updates at a decent pace before they get alot of pledges but once they are getting a decent amount of pledges the updates come out at a snails pace. It almost seems like they get lazy and are already getting the cash so they say screw it and just dont put the same effort anymore. But hey thats my opinion and may be wrong but I have seen it alot from creators. People will pledge and just forget that they are pledged to a creator I mean look at Icstor and milfy city we all know hes a scamming POS and the games abandoned yet he still have 4k subs on his patreon hes getting paid for legit nothing.
Now people are happy if there is at least one update a year. There are amazing devs who never have any problems, and if they do, they don't talk about it, but just do their job and they get their well-deserved money. I understand a broken arm or computer, but when it happens all the time, then I don't really understand it. Brain has had constant problems for a very long time, and it will never end, well, you know, this is life, everyone has problems, but what is most annoying is that there have already been a lot of release dates, and they all are constantly being postponed, it's crazy, just release an update that will be shorter, it's easy, people will already be happy with a small beta, although wait, we already should have several betas, but he released only one...

I do not know which country you live in, but in most countries, if you call your boss and tell him if you can take a year off because of depression, then you won't work there anymore, unless it's not maternity leave, and if you work from home, it's even funnier. AND he's working on an update, he just doesn't release it

. I understand the tragedy in the family, but before that he also had a lot of problems that kept him from releasing updates, and it all started after he achieved success, coincidence?