Damn shame, but technically finished is better than never. Maybe the plot can be carried over to a new game someday by another artist, or you can someday just update this one, I prefer retaining the old version personally, a little bit of history preserved sort of.
Thanks for releasing this.
Also, we sure that artist isn't just a ghost now? My experience was like that, thought my friend was ignoring me, but turns out they died and I was never informed until after their funeral.