Please show me where Seatribe say they don't have the budget to improve the visuals.
And Bjorn just does the art, why should he implement better graphics before the game is at it's full potential of gameplay features?
If he only does art, why does he make shitty art then sit around saying "Oh once Loftar finishes the gameplay I'll get to work on making the art look half-decent"?
Art takes as long as the coding does, why would any studio double the development time?
I find your argument that Bjorn should sit around doing nothing until the game is finished to be absurd! That would be a rather insane development pipeline!
*Bjorn draws and animates characters having kids*
*Loftar didn't code any of that*
Really now? Drawing a sword and putting in in your game is the same as programming a "swing sword kill monster" animation?