Funny... that you mention Melody. It's to this day their best game and it has none of the sharing stuff in it.
The original fanbase you mentioned is mostly gone by now though and the rest circle jerks in the fan art thread.
That doesn't mean though that MrDots has no fans left, they just got replaced by new people and I think MrDots hasn't realized that.
I'm not surprised though given that MrDots has teams members like Jeff who fap to raceplay podcasts...
IMHO kinda embarrassing...
This is also the reason why MrDots has to be very careful. When DMD ends and the subs drop and he starts a new project he should really reflect on what kind of dev he want's to be.
I have to say though it's always funny to see people like you that use tems like vanilla as an insult. Nice kink-shaming...