Both of you are speedrunning a threadban if you resort to personal insults like that. Why do that to yourself? Criticizing or praising the game and arguing about it is one thing, but why go that low? I'm certainly not a saint, but goddamn guys. The offtopic section of the forum is more suited for pointless fights. I know that because I do engage in the stupidity over there at times. lol
Anyway... That said, both of you have a point.
On one hand, supporting a game financially that's barely getting any new updates for the past 3 years is questionable, especially seeing that it's getting slower and slower. Supporting a developer who is lying to his patrons (don't even try to say otherwise, you know there's plenty shitty statements from stoper) is also questionable. Chances are that he'd work more if people stopped supporting him to get his income back up. Not a guarantee by no means, but atleast a chance that he's coming to his senses, trying to make a change. Atleast for a while..
But I also think it's needless to say that without any supporters, this project wouldn't exist. Not for patrons, and certainly not for pirates. Insulting someone simply because he's supporting stoper is just not right. You can dislike it for various reasons, sure. I personally think that many supporters have a very questionable motivation to support a project. Example being those who spend their money on stoper in the hopes that it's not getting abandoned. I feel like that should NEVER be the reasoning to support someone, and yet I've seen plenty people say exactly that. Financial support should be a 'Thank you!" for all the work a developer is putting into a project, not a developer who is providing less, and less, and less...hoping that the money will stop the inevitable. But it's your money, and so you can do whatever the fuck you want with it.