Yeah, I concur. I would love to see them just focus on art. Looking through the code and assets, all this work goes into minigames and long questlines that end up not mattering at all. If I had a third of the art that they'd done, and it was all simply focused on Jack, I could have written a complete arc and have moved onto DLC by now. Or at the very least, made it into easily repeatable events, so there's more replay value.
Imo, the issue is from the project management. They don't know where they want to go with the characters, so every update is disconnected from any sort of overall arc. It's a shame, bc. I do love the art style, and Jack is such a unique take on the the trainer genre. ESL, glacially slow updates, and lack of direction really hurts what is one of the best OC game premises out there.