You're totally fine, waiting on updates is understandable.

I'm mostly doing good, had the flu for like a week a little bit ago which definitely put a halt on things lol

Dev speed is a little slow right now because I'm trying to get things like commissions set up for my non-game things, (ideally so I can spend more time on the game than working a day job), but should hopefully pick speed back up soon. I think I'm like, a third done with the update? maybe closer to half?  Most of the rewrite stuff has been done, and I'm like halfway done with the pixel art I need. One enemy with more complicated attacks been fully finished, but none of the actual level scenes have been made yet. Counting the one that's fully completed, I have animation sets for 3 enemies done, with the goal amount for the next update being 7 (each zone is supposed to have 4 unique ones minimum, and the Squirrel is already done sprite-wise)

Also, since you're the one who asked originally, can confirm that controller support has been implemented, and works fine. I'm testing it with a gamecube controller lmao

I'll probably be doing a little mini update sometime soon for clarity reasons. I'm thinking that it might be wise to do smaller monthly devlogs.