Lack of care towards his audience? The guy was literally here asking us about what we want to see in the game, instead of sitting in his Patreon echo chamber, that's more than 99% of the devs do. And we need to keep in mind that he has to port the whole game to renpy, aside from all the new content he has to put on. Him giving us an estimate of when the update will be released is at least something, compared with the usual TBA like most other the other big devs, which is fine because with games of this caliber you can't really know for certain when it will be ready.
Could he post more status updates? Sure. Is he lazy or a bad dev for not doing that? I don't think so.