I feel like some people are missing the whole point here. OK so maybe the dev is dealing with a personal situation as they claim. So... does their whole life go on hold for a year? That's just not realistic, or healthy. Normal people deal with these things and still have to keep being productive members of society. Do teachers, police officers, doctors, or any other ordinary jobs typically take a year off, and keep drawing a full salary when a relative dies? Nope. But I guess a porn dev deservers more consideration right...?
I would be all for being considerate and understanding if there is like a minor delay, or if the dev just posted a note saying hey I had a loss in my family, and their supporters want to post some "sorry for your loss" type notes, that is all fine and good. But there is a huge difference between that, and what the white knight types on this site love to do, which is enabling and encouraging devs to produce little to nothing, and keep collecting a check for an extended period of time. Valiantly defending these devs that just go off the reservation for months to years, while continuing to pluck at their supporters' heart strings by posting message after message about how their grandma is sick or they have cancer or their puppy got run over by a bus, is wrong. And you are not helping them in the long run, because at some point their current cash cow is going to dry up, and they are going to struggle like all hell to adapt back to having to actually work hard and meet deadlines, after subsisting on lots of pay for little work for so long.
I would not call the people white knight types for something like this.
Moving takes time, especially when it comes to moving to another country.
Grieving takes time, and that time can vary, depending on how close the people were to each other.
Dealing with lawyers takes time, especially when it is dealing with estate issues.
Immagration takes time, because you have to stay current, and deal with paperwork, that never seems to end in some countrys.
All of that can easily destroy a devs muse, and make it impossible to release good work.
Lets face it, no one can do a good job, if they are not in the mood to do it at that time.
And then you have the issue on top of all of that where a dev has to be able to get into the right frame of mind to create something good.
Sure, if they really pushed themselves, even if they were not able to get into the right frame of mind, they might be able to release something, but it would likely be small, and complete shit, compared to their previous work.
Which in itself, would cause people to whine and complain about it.