There have been and there are projects that have a dedicated fanbase even when there are blatant shortcomings in direction and long term vision, look at Star Citizen's funding and you'll have a wonderful example...
Believe me when I say that if this Dev pulls a fast one I'll be the first to call my support out, but after a long conversation, where more than once he called himself an idiot, while all the long time backers replied with "yeah, you're pretty much an idiot", because we knew that the issue was preventable and was on him, I personally decided to continue supporting him: I found his apology sincere, that he learned from the mistake and his new direction an improvement on the formula he was building.
Unforeseen events can happen and mistakes can be done by anybody, here shit happened, you can either accept it or move on and support someone else...the decision is up to you; I decided to give him a pass.
And...to be perfectly clear, the first project was put on hold due to lack of funding on Patreon, not because he decided to switch up out of boredom or something else...he wanted to have a "smaller" project, both in scale and complexity, to build up his Patreon base and following, getting a release under his belt before returning on something of larger scope...again, free to believe what you want, I have no reason up until now to doubt the man.
