I think people are too harsh on Techno. This game is probably in the top 5% of all 2D games on this website, yet it's somehow not enough? If anything, we are way too spoiled by the frequency of the game's updates, so we are conditioned to expect too much. I think the real deadly spiral here is that Techno has started out with this high update frequency so the people who donate money are also used to it. So to keep earning money (which is by no means an unethical thing), Techno needs to keep up the high update frequency or else people will leave. But that's what's burning him out. Just my guess.