I think the biggest thing holding this game back other than the abject troonslop slowly infiltrating is just how much focus there is on shit nobody cares about.
Toby Fox is allergic to focusing on the main battle system of Deltarune and instead we need countless dev hours spent on minigames, more minigames, a whole chapter that is 80% minigame, alternative movement mechanics (a climbing minigame) and of course, alternative movement mechanics (platforming minigame)
Nobody talks about Chapter 3 because of the minigames, those were forgettable.
Nobody really talks about Chapter 4 because of the climbing, that was forgettable.
Nobody is going to talk about Chapter 5 because of the platformer shit, that too is forgettable.
Toby needs to get it into his head that people play Deltarune to play Deltarune, not to play shitty Warioware, Links Awakening, Frogger and Mario.
Slightly unrelated, but back when Chapter 2 came out, I wondered, perhaps foolishly. "Gee, that Weird Route thing is pretty nutso! I wonder how Toby is going to handle a character clearly important like Berdly having a fate that varies so much!"
The younger Chud didn't think that Toby would just go "And from this point on, Berdly is a background character at best."
I guess bothering with anything complicated like a truly branching storyline (Or really, even like 4-5 altered outcomes) was just impossible for man with as much money and time as he likes to develop his game that is really only a step up from a basic RPG.
