I think the main topic of our discussion is why this game keeps delaying updates, cheating its supporters time and time again.
But now it seems that the topic has been artificially twisted to a direction that has nothing to do with the topic.
Anyway, it seems to me that both the previous "author" and the current "discord admin" are saying or doing the same thing:
"We don't have any evidence, but we believe the project is progressing steadily, just a little bit slowly."
Yes, they didn't directly ask the game's backers to pay for it, but they knew someone would.