I intend to finish the game, though there is probably a certain point where time will run out and I will have to make a hard decision. That's at least a year away, but every month I take off is bringing that day closer. I may have to make some compromises and remove a number of planned predators to help reach that completion point.
It is unfortunately tedious. Earlier updates had some new things going on in regards to coding challenges which was more fun to work on, but now less time is spent on that, and more is spent on generating images until they come out just right. At some point there was a good balance of challenges, tedious yet necessary repetition, and creativity, where I could switch between things and maintain consistent progress. I've tried working on 2 projects at once so I had some coding challenges to tackle again, but it's really difficult for me to jump between projects like that. I lose a lot of time trying to re-familiarize myself with each project doing that.
It's not like nothing has been done since the last public release. Next update is still roughly 70% complete, just need to get back into it.