Dev remains silent. The criteria of getting 'abandoned' tag there is 90 days without any news on the game sources.
The absence of the dev's statement gives some hope here...
From aside it seems like the dev's just lost interest to the game and keeps it alive just formally. A few events to finalize the storyline wouldn't be the worst end of the game now but it's still up to the dev...
This one's nice but every update is kinda 2 short events so it looks more adequate to wait not for every 0.#.# version but every 0.# skipping those between them...
This one's interesting at first but quickly turns into an endless grind:
you skip game hours on and on until event time listed in journal, quickly pass this event and keep skipping hours to another one. repeat, wait for a new update.
this is where a disadvantage of sandbox games hides