I see people ranting on about Icstor and other major devs taking breaks, or even devs like gumdrop who hasn't released a game in almost 2 years, but very few actually notice how much Lewdlab is ripping his patreons off. How you ask, let me explain-
In the 2 months between 0.4 and 0.5 he made more than 40k, for an update with 250+ images and 5-7 animations. In total the game till date has maybe 1500 images and 50 animations, that is in 7 months since he released this. Take into the fact that he started development on this way back when DoD hadn't even ended. Ok, he was able to focus completely on Midnight Desires only after DoD:TLM was finished, which happened in September 2019. So in 12 months or so he's given us a game with less than 50 animations and 1500 CGimages. Let's ignore the fact that he was earning more 12 months ago than he is today, his earnings over the period of time (till 0.5 release) has been 250,000$ or more! He lied by having to supposedly learn UNITY and then having the GARGANTUAN task of porting back to ren'py, so in essence 3-4 months of doing nothing. Then there was the lie of hiring people to help after he got a NEW OFFICE to work in.
Compare that to Icstor's 2000+ images and 60-90 animations per update, even if that takes 3-4 months usually (he was clear when he was taking a break). So as of Milfy City 0.5 there are 4000+ images and 250+ animations. Icstor's well and way beyond lewdlab yet so many haters, pessimists and critics for him. Barely a few for lewdlab.
P.S. I do like lewdlab, just believe he should have 1/4th of the patreons he has at the moment, for the quantity and quality of his updates. Totally overrated.