While there are certain trolls here on site(like you find them on all forum sites in the world), which surely were not all innocent for the rising tension in the thread, it is a fact, that two errors by L&P brought about the final breakdown.
One is his extremly slow development speed and complete inability to stick to a schedule even halfway. Currently we are talking about an unsustainable space of 4 decades development time!
Two is how L&P behaved from the start once something did not happen like he wanted. Aggressive, accusing, open disdain and hate over trifles! You where not here, judging by your first post date, when L&P had several posts deleted because he totally lost it in frothing rage over peanut events. It made more than one supporter and patron(!) of his go "seriously Dude? What are you on?", because his reaction was over the top from early on!
The final nail was L&P showing open disdain to even close supporters and it is only a short time ago, when he stated that the patrons paying more were more loyal than the others! L&P was pissing on patrons with few money, but who supported him for over 4 years through unbelievable delays, glacial updates and rage hissy fits of his by showing them open disdain for their support and exhibited a really unflattering greed by calling those paying more, even if they supported him only for a short time more loyal than others!