Hopefully your friend will get better from covid!
Unfortunately this update is long overdue. Maybe I need to move to more smaller updates like for example a new update every 2-4 weeks. And yeah it would be good to have also online multiplayer, but maybe currently it would take too many resources to implement that. Although I have heard that some people have got some local multiplayer games to work over Parsec (which enables local mutiplayer games to work over internet).