gats should have trademarked his shit if he didnt want it to be missused. towerfag seems to have gotten the better lawyer since hes using other peoples art and making rpg maker game. Its a brilliant way to make money since all he needs to do is pay commision to his artist to slightly change the design. He may have won but hes still a shit person
Your opinion is extremely unpopular and you're wrong on multiple levels:
1. Towergame is not using Gats' art, they have own artist. I'm pretty sure you can't copyright art-style. Seeing how Tower actually won lawsuit it has to be the case.
2. If Gats didn't want his designs to be "stolen" why did he presented them publicly in a first place with detailed description each? Just look at those charts, they are obviously ment to be used by everyone. Imagine me posting cooking recipe online and then trying to sue everyone who uses it.
3. His artistic effort not only parasitizes on Gats ideas, they started making their own princesses long ago.
4. You make it sound like making game is easy part, but drawing few pages of illustration charts is a hard. Yeah, RPGMaker is kinda lame engine for low effort games. But Tower managed to make very detailed and massive game with this shit engine, which is a miracle in its own.
5. Towerfag not just milks money from patreon supporters like almost every porn game maker I know, he actually does stuff, his updates are on point and I never got impression that he got lazy and stopped working.
And ultimate argument would be: if you compare head to head both games: Towerfag's, and Gats' you'll immediately will notice which one is good and which one is bad. Gats should have continued to support Tower instead of suing him 2 times, cause he actually made his designs work. While i was waiting for him to win lawsuit, I got curious and downloaded Towergirls: The Game, and was actually disgusted how bad it was, it looked like 2 schoolboy pals decided to make their first game and failed miserably. And they actually had a nerve to sue Towerfag making message for everyone: "Don't play that derivative game, play our original instead".
P.S. Although I wholesomely respect and support Towerfag's work, I don't think that his decision to make this release paid is justified. Sure, he wants to return some funds he lost during lawsuit, but he once used Gats designs, so he can't claim this game as entirely his anymore. Its like opensource license, once you used open part you can't sell it anymore.