Look, for anyone who doen't want to follow this topic, no-one's making you. When it's released the title will change, and I'm sure you'll be able to work out the project's been released without actually looking at anything inside the topic. And you might not think that there's anything important going on here, but I have had a lot of useful discussion on the project, especially with regards to how certain things should be translated.
As to could someone else have taken this project? Yeah, sure, I suppose. But when this project started, there were a lot fewer translators around. And there's still not that many translators who do full game projects, especially when considering the number of games that deserve translations. So perhaps someone could have done it, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Could I have handled the communication better? Probably. My life hasn't been as stable as I would like it to be (due to the political situation in the UK: academics have already been hit pretty badly by Brexit, which means my employment is much more precarious than it was, and is likely to deteriorate further), which has sapped the amount of time I can spend on this project, and I've been very bad at anticipating the scale of things getting shaken up. And in any case, as someone with Asperger's Syndrome, communication is not my strongest point even at the best of times. However, it's also true that I am getting somewhat fed up with the H-games community in general, or at least a subsection of it who I think are best described as very vocal jackasses (not to mention a lot of other things, but I digress), and obviously disillusionment with the community is going to sap the amount of time I want to spend on these kinds of projects.
I'm not sure how to handle this situation well, because there's lots of different people who want different things. I guess I'll go to a different update policy for now: if people ask about progress I'll respond with whatever I can write in a moment, otherwise I won't say anything until there's something significant. Maybe that'll work? I dunno. But I'll give it a try and see what happens.