I wasn't aware that your personal presence in the Discord group is what is keeping the game from dying. Shame on me, I guess.
In all seriousness, though. This game was tagged abandoned by the forum's moderators. It was tagged as abandoned due to going from a history of high frequency small updates to a history of low frequency, sporadic updates, to no updates for an extended period of time. The moderators do not apply the abandoned thread on a whim, because f95 is a very large forum and mislabeling a game can have a tangible negative impact on a developer's bottom line. Statements and information from a game's developer are taken into account when the tag is applied, and sometimes an "active" game gets tagged because, like this one, it appears that the author has suddenly stopped putting work into it despite claims to the contrary.
The tag is gone now. It is gone because the developer pushed an extremely buggy, very clearly unfinished update out the door well before it was ready. Derelict published that update within a few days of the game being marked as abandoned, and the state of the update says as much about what happened as the timing does.