That's been the impression I've gotten from the third hand accounts of people's interactions with Sel, but like the dev I talked about he had the same thing. Loved the game he was making, talked about it all the time, refused to hire any help cause he didn't trust anyone could do his vision right (Did that once and it screwed things for a while), made previews, pictures, animations, updates and info constantly being put out. He went over drive on the original and you could see how much he enjoyed it till the last update.
Then he wanted to do a remake, he said he needed the year to work on it so it could be put out faster, then 6 months into the year, and I think this is where the difference is, his most die hard yes men fans kept his pocket lined, after 1 year when he was suppose to release the prolouge, didn't and based on what people who were on his discord were saying before being removed cause they wanted to know what was going on with the update he changed, focused on his subs more, released trickling updates, barely any animations, bragged that he was making more then doctors in his country and seemed fine with only releasing so far 2/3s of the prolouge after 1 year in development and almost 1 year with him 'working on it' getting rid of anyone who questioned him or accused him of purposely taking his time to get as much money as he could.
The thing as well is this isn't a unique story, I've seen many devs who went big, made bank who were passionate and loved their game, cast it too the wayside when enough money was involved, and while there's a high chance Sel wouldn't do it, the chance isn't 100%
