Those guys dont look at the money they make on patreon as a side job even, is just "those suckers will keep the cash flowing as i go on vacation or work on my real work" and even the guys who has this on the main cash income is just the "pay me suckers sorry my cat is dead keep paying more 6 months until my aunty die"
Only a few guys like the Rebirth dev has a consistent update routine
Some people like me don't often look at the Patreon's they support, so It's easy to have Patreon who forget who they support many are not suckers they genuinely forget how many they support.
For example, I stopped nine supports when I recently purged the worst of them.
Incomes are different for everyone I wish this was less of the case, but I have lived long enough to realize it's not.
On the game I personally like most in the thread, loved it and thought it was one of the best games on here. The game outgrew the devs ability to improve it and his time allocation. He did not make enough money to justify quitting his RL work. A lot of this was due to his lack of consideration to his supporters, mainly through appalling communication.
I know I was one of his supporters from an early stage, well documented on this thread with exchanges between the dev and me.
Most of the animosity (though it's mild,) is due to people missing the game as it was quality.
Supporting him now would be pointless agreed, but some people might not care for their own reasons hardly an excuse to claim they are suckers....it's choice. Sorry for the long post and taking people's lifetime reading it (but I am a life vampire