ah... this reminds me so much of my first trade with sunmi. is actually not my first tango with sunmi. like you, the first time i also traded a character for 2 arts and it took from 26 august 2020 to 8 june 2021 for the trade to finish. it took a lot of me chasing them around for progress updates too, at the time while seeing them being very active in a certain cs server. i called them out like... twice regarding how im not getting any replies to my messages while they were chatting in cs servers. it took me instilling a strict deadline too to get the 2nd part of the art and they sent it on the very last day.

i expressed a lil bit of frustration on how long the trade took from the intial promised 2 months and sunmi :apologized that it became that way even though it wasn't their intention". I replied back:

"Just keep on working on communication more in the future as i imagine if everything was communicated well or stably, it would've gone more smoothly and less stressful from the client's part. no matter how little (or even none!) the progress is, it's better than long bouts of silence"

and this is their reply

"Yes I know! I'm still working on it and trying some methods like putting reminders and such to help me with it so ty for the support!! I hope i'll stop from relying on them in the future ///"

due to this i really thought they would've improved more on stuffs but... obvious from the beware, i still had trouble communicating with them. its regretful that 2 years wasn't enough for them to make good on their promise to "work on it"

i also got a private dm from someone who experienced hardships with having to chase sunmi around for their art piece too o)-( a friend suggested i bring this to the public psa forum since there seems to be a couple of people affected... im thinking about it but idk ><;;