>>724683243
>He's simply just too busy being an e-celeb to properly devote himself to the game.
In Toby's ideal world he would have locked himself and Temmie in a bunker and done nothing but work on Deltarune until it was done
But instead they released Chapter 1 in 2018 because he realized the scope of the game was too large for him to approach it like they did with Undertale and needed help. Even more important to his personal contribution, his chronic wrist issues became debilitating and he is physically no longer able to work like he had before, relying on text-to-speech software and delegating (or dictating) a lot of the computer work that he would have done himself.
Toby has not been a direct bottleneck on development for a long time, but his extensive personal oversight of the team of people working to realize his dream game, his greater-than-normal involvement with the game's Japanese translation, and his inexperience as a project manager working with a lot of friends and similarly inexperienced artists have certainly all contributed to an extraordinarily long/slow pace of development. Some of this has been addressed like hiring an actual project manager in 2023(?) to get the team's shit together, but this is fundamentally an indie project with no real oversight or deadlines to meet, he's not going to sell out to Nintendo to get the project he's been working toward for 15 years over with a little faster.

>>720694590
>>720696095
You're grossly misrepresenting things. A major reason the game is taking so long is because Toby crippled himself (maybe there's some genetic/disease factor we don't know about, but Toby seems to attribute it to overwork and not taking care of himself) so now we have one man's super game dream project being dictated to a devoted but small and relatively disorganized team. Toby has delegated enough that he isn't a direct bottleneck on their work flow but we all know not a single pixel or letter of English or Japanese is going into his game without his input and approval.
Toby is the heart and soul and vision behind Deltarune but his hands are not the hands that are building it.

>>530317950
He talked about doing physical therapy and work-arounds like the text-to-speech when Chapter 2 came out, but it seems like it's just gone from "debilitating" to "manageable/limiting." That's a shame
He also talked about exploring surgical repair as an option, I wonder if that just wasn't possible/not recommended by a doctor or if he's putting it off because it would put him out of work

>>530319276
He's overseeing and triple checking every single thing that goes into his game, fuck off with your gay witchhunting