I'm not in dev's game discord so I can't speak for the whole group there, but I know two dudes from other places that were subbed to him and cancelled over this ending. So he was lying through his teeth when he said a few pages back that absolutely all his paying supporters loved the endingPeople are over invested for far less on here. I can understand the reasoning not wanting to try out the next project though.
Exactly this happened to literally 90% to the playerbase here on F95. I also do believe that, contrary to the devs statement, that some paying supporters didn't like the ending as well. The contrast is too much. I dunno haha