I think you are equating job burnout/overload to a drug addiction. Yes, one's health may and can be impacted by stress but once they've got their health, both physical and mental well-being back in order, it's not like they have to give up on the game's development altogether.
It's like people whose jobs get the better of them. Do they need to stop working forever on account of needing to temporarily step away from what is causing them their health issues at that time? In all honesty, it's not the job that is really causing the issues to begin with either. It's the management of their own faculties that is.
I can understand anything that is life altering, such as cancer or something long-term debilitating, resulting in a game's outright cancellation but I'm of the belief most games being abandoned, this is not the case.
Obviously every case is going to be different as no two are alike but all too often in the games I was following (this game, Monster Girl Island, Sylphine to name but a few,) each was abandoned for their own reasons but only for this game do I believe was for honest to goodness health related reasons.
Again, my belief is most abandoned games are abandoned not due to legitimate health related reasons ultimately.
It's like people whose jobs get the better of them. Do they need to stop working forever on account of needing to temporarily step away from what is causing them their health issues at that time? In all honesty, it's not the job that is really causing the issues to begin with either. It's the management of their own faculties that is.
I can understand anything that is life altering, such as cancer or something long-term debilitating, resulting in a game's outright cancellation but I'm of the belief most games being abandoned, this is not the case.
Obviously every case is going to be different as no two are alike but all too often in the games I was following (this game, Monster Girl Island, Sylphine to name but a few,) each was abandoned for their own reasons but only for this game do I believe was for honest to goodness health related reasons.
Again, my belief is most abandoned games are abandoned not due to legitimate health related reasons ultimately.