I understand your worry but I don't ask money, I'm awful at accepting gifts, and I don't like leaving the impression that I only do things out of greed.
My patreon is still up because my current income is low, too low to do much in life actually, though it is low because I REALLY slowed down my workflow.
My point being that I never hid the fact that I want to work on something I know I feel passionate about, and passion about anything in my life right now and over the last 3 years has been on very short supply, hence why updates take too long, I don't want to rely on AI to pump me a script out and to do the render posing for me, hence why the game is in this state of bubble, waiting to continue but not sure where to go.
What I can safely say is that, it can take 2 weeks like it can take 5 years, my games will get their full story and get the ending I want for them.
The only time I put a "paywall" is on Betas which are on Itch.io and Patreon, but the game itself here is free, which isn't even available for any other project than Project: Jericho