I'm starting to think that Alorth might be suffering burnout. Whether you believe it's been consistently or not, dude has been working on multiple projects with other developers, with apparently a team of other rendering artists he's been mentoring / training, and doing this game as well.
If he's consistently working (I can't say either way, ofc; I have no idea), even with the occasional break I could see someone getting worn down from everything. Personally, I think he should step away from everything except (1) this game as primary focus; (2)
Tales from the Unending Void as secondary focus, especially since he's been working with Perverteer's team for a long time now; and (3)
Radiant as minimal focus, assuming Sir Damned could ever get off his ass to actually
work on that game.