Anyone defending the slow development of this game is just fanboying. They've made MASSIVE amounts of money and sold countless copies and are still selling copies everyday. Money is not an issue for this development so hiring more people shouldn't be either though I doubt that is the case.

People have to put yourself in the devs shoes. Think about it. You spend a year or more making a game and sort of scraping by being a little indie company and then BAM! Suddenly your game blows up and you make millions of dollars.

There's 2 ways they respond imo and one is try to capitalize on the success by doubling down and pumping out more content to keep the success coming or you take a pile of cash and go live the new life you just earned and the game goes on the backburner.

There's just no way with the amount of money they got, the exposure they got, and time it's been that the last underwhelming update the game had was justified.

I imagine they ofc are working on the game but with zero urgency at all and just mostly enjoying their new found wealth. Honestly, they earned it even though it sucks for people wanting more.

Over 10 million copies sold and even with steam taking a cut that is a ton of money for development and hiring as well as anything that is needed to speed up development.