Without going too into it, MLS is just a super weird situation.
The dev milked MLS fans for support to get his other game off the ground - a game that is arguably painful to play. And if you so much as ask about MLS on his Discord - which is only open to paying Patrons - you get insta-banned. Permanently. F your Patronage, because that is unaffected - so that Discord you're paying to access? Tough shit.
He's put up polls about MLS vs his other game, and I have to tell you, I am all but convinced he stacks the deck on that himself. He's never, ever coming back to MLS, which is decidedly a better game from every possible angle.