I'm not going to search for it, but the announcement WAS about ending the development. Wait, just checked go to Patreon on read the whole thing (it's NOT paywalled).That announcement wasn’t really about abandoning the game though. It was more about introducing the team and letting people know of their problems and what not. Nothing in that announcement if I remember correctly really gives the impression that the dev would drop of the face of the earth mere weeks later.
especially considering we know they were working on 0.58 when the posts stopped coming.
Yes, it talked about how many people worked on things but was MOSTLY about how they needed a LOT more money. Oh, and how the game was going to be on Steam, and they needed more money, or the game would be dropped.
Just a thought