How am I supposed to know the Dev entire background history? Its a funny assumption that I'd be basically a stalker like it seem some of the folks and spend my time with my nose in the Devs affairs. Unless the Dev state it in a note readily attached on the first page, I am not likely to know that sort of information at large about the Devs, so I merely judge them by what they do and unless they made things VERY obvious.
As for 'conspiracy theory'... well you are either naive or foolish, if you think the average Dev on this site isn't some greedy bastard out to make some quick money, heck you can see it on Steam too with the Early Access program, full of greedy lil gobshites. Also this is a Pirate site do you expect the average Dev here to be a well meaning altruistic individuals? Yea nope, and what if you payed attention you'd notice that like I said a massive amount of games got updated recently or will get updated soon... and so many of them provide very little new material, and as I said hadn't been updated in several months, seen that pattern the last few years systematically, so I am fairly sure my 'theory' isn't so much a 'conspiracy theory' but rather a 'behavioral theory'.
Oh and if you think every Devs making some drama story to justify themselves says the truth, again you suffer from a fairly severe amount of naivety or foolishness, yea sure this Dev might be one of the actual ones to be truthful, but considering I am not the one receiving money for this, I find it weird that the burden of proof would seemingly be put on me.
I'd have been fine with only the first message I posted, if the fanatics hadn't been jumping at me for daring to doubt the Dev's integrity while being given little reasons to believe in said integrity, else than being told 'because they said so'.