I understand your point, but I've been lured in via the free play of some really good games, and have become a patron of more than a few of them *because* I had the free "taste" of the game. Devs who look down on these sites are shooting themselves in the foot, as those same sites often do a lot of the marketing and promotion of their game.
Unless they are scamming their patrons or failing to read their players' wants in a game; in that case, they are headed for Povertytown, population: them. Some devs have rl developments that get in the way of their game work - marriage, babies, death, etc. - but some put the games on the back burner bc the learning curve for making these games is VERY steep and just...lose interest. Most are probably not intending to scam their patrons, always intending to come back, but rarely do.
I guess what I am saying here is that while some of the devs are utterly selfish assclowns, most aren't. Give them a bit of a break. We've all had games just...end, but that's nothing new. We've seen the same thing with books, movies and tv series. Grow up a little.
