The real question here is when will the story catch up to the cliffhanger reveal? (And will it even get that far?)
Leaving it there then going back to rework the story from the beginning is just… I dunno, it leaves a bad taste.
This isn’t like a show being cancelled by a network, or a commercial game series being dropped by a publisher.
And it’s not like long running series that get dropped because the author has to stop entirely.
It’s someone making a conscious decision to change from one medium to another and rewrite from the beginning, despite a major cliffhanger, and to hell with the audience.
Even if that wasn’t the intention, it is how it comes across.