Such a weird moralist stance imo, not like you generate the dev any money like that. The only thing it does is giving you guys a reason to give yourself a thumbsup. Even more on a piracy board.
Dont get me wrong, i think its good that there are no leaks because the dev (as you said) deserves to make money and has public releases without too much waiting time which is already unusual for DAZ avns.
But i still cant help but cringe reading these comments, its a strange art of virtue signaling where you dont even help the guy you want to "support" via your actions.
It's just a personal thing for me (and it doesn't apply to every dev), but for smaller devs like Buu that are communicative, regular updates and offer free public releases.
I realize that it doesn't put any of my money in his pocket, but by suggesting that I don't use the leaked version and wait for public, someone else might decide to not use leaked and wait too or join his Patreon (probably not on a piracy site, but you never know).
I didn't mean to sound pompous or holier than thou and I apologize if it came off that way (like you said, on F95, it would be hypocritical of me).
It was meant as just a little shout out to one of the good devs.