Not defending this game's progress in general, because it's true development pace is concerningly slow. But you guys really need a reality check sometimes on what this site is and the relationship it bears to developers. F95 is a piracy site, with an automated "Abandoned" tagging system that is arbitrarily set by the F95 admins/mods based on last thread OP update, and automatically applied to game threads without any manual check/intervention on what is happening elsewhere on dev's patreon/discord/etc.
Nobody should be surprised or dismayed that a dev wouldn't care about what this site thinks of their game or development progress. Their responsibility is to their paying supporters, not to a piracy forum.
I think you are partially right. And i'm not writing this post against you, but instead because you voice a very common idea.
This is undoubtedly a piracy forum. It is also true that there are people who pay and there are those who don't and when a decision has to be made, a dev is probably better off listening to those who keep the lights on in the studio.
However there are two crucial facts that when ignored can absolutely hit the devs the hard way:
First, this forum is full of people who want to pay and are just looking for the best value for their money. There are also a lot who have spent money in the past and stopped. A dev needs only ask and they will come here and tell their reasons.
And second, i'm willing to bet that you didn't see a TV commercial for Pizza Hot. Nor have you seen a billboard next to the highway for this game. And probably nobody heard a radio show where they invited the insanely talented Abelius to tell his secret of hard work and success.
Most of his supporters almost certainly got to know about this game through this site or a similar one.
He can ignore, insult or wage war against anyone he wishes. That is his decision and nobody else's. But the reality remains that he did get supporters and through them money from this site and community. With every snarky comment he writes, every genuine feedback he ignores and every plan to punish the place where his success came from will risk alienating supporters future and present.