nah, you are just being too jumpy, I mean, yeah is dumb people don't bother to read the latest comments before asking if the game is dead, but you need to remember people who knows nothing about this game doesn't have the same level of investment that you or me, people who doesn't know the masterpiece this game is might engage with the thread like they usually do with any new random VN they lay their eyes on, and that means taking the route of least effort, that means just checking the main post for the relevant information, now Is fair to assume a game that has not been updated on 12 months could be dead, and nobody wants to get invested in a game that wont ever end, so that's why they decide, again, taking the route of least effort, just ask away the current status of the game in order to get people like us who are already invested in the game tell him what's going on since we have been following the development of the game from a while now.
So yeah, I would not consider that a troll post, just a lazy post from an uninvested, and a little bit rude person. But Im confident people will get invested once they give the game a shot and maybe even becoming patreons, so let's not gatekeep too much and try to keep our heads cool when dealing with this kind of comments.