Pretty much this. Any code base will look like crap after a year or two as requirements change and assumptions only partially pan out, or always to the next developer as the only thing worse than your old code is someone else's old code.
Although what they need here is a direction change really. They've shown time and time again they don't have the team for an online game, performance aside in the actual sense of making use of the multiplayer setting and adding gameplay to the game. They're in an uphill battle where even if they get the bugs ironed out tomorrow who cares? It's the grindiest most exploitative live service in a while, all for gameplay that will in no way compare to the likes of Genshin or the like.
I don't think anyone here has really been "going off" for a while, it's just people watching as Helius repeatedly shoots himself in the foot hoping to teach the ex-backers who fled here a lesson. I'm ex-cap, I remember a few from November who were here for a bit and slowly stopped posting, I'm sure we'll see more backers included more caps swing through. His decisions aren't hurting the people who don't want to play his game anymore, it's hurting the remaining people who do sadly, and I guess they're starting to feel it.
