I honestly never even considered Chris as a route, given that he technically already is "taken" as he is, or atleast was dating one of the female characters last time i played through the thing.
Although i did kinda wish for some kinda NSFW thing to happen with him at some point.thing.
And don't worry too much about the gap between Patreon and Public releases, sometimes that gap is what it takes to have the funds to pay off artwork commissions, dev team members/coworkers and such, assuming you're not drawing everything yourself.