Does he have a.d.d
This dude attention span must be short to not complete a book by now.
shareThe more money he got the more he was able to procrastinate and endlessly revise without consequence. This is why deadlines for creative people are a necessity.
It also doesn't help that he created a meandering, bloated mess with the last two books, making his job significantly harder going forward. There is exactly a zero percent chance that he finishes the series.