So many talented people are their own worst enemies. At least the old guard like DarkCookie and Icstor first built up some reputation, a good chunk of money and then started milking.
These new guys make something promising early on and are content with milking 200-500 dollars. It's been 3.5 years and the game is still in that ''well it has interesting concepts'' phase. The dev could be doing much more and making more money