I used to play Teacher's Pets until the Dev abandoned it. (He whined about Patroen, F95 users etc). After a while he Just-Dropped-Out! Nothing. He kept collecting $1000's in donations for months and months even though he stopped posting there more than a year ago. He still collects $300 even now. Members here beat up on him because it was almost a year for a new release. Then when it did drop, it was less content than the last one (he re-worked it to please Patroen). No one wants to see others get taken advantaged of on Patroen, so people continued to hammer him. Eventually got tired of the abuse and he gave up. No discord, f95, or patroen, no nothing.
While that Dev was kinda thin-skinned, everyone ended up losing because, Guess What... no more game. It had potential and MAYBE with a little encouragement, he might have continued on. Who knows.
Bottom line: Harass, criticize demean a Dev too much and they'll just stop producing. I know a lot of Dev's stop coming here after they get enough of that. Personally I like being able to communicate with them. Even if it's just to say Great Job.