Does this actually surprise anybody? He comes back after years of no work on the game, posts an update and that he's got everything back on track again and will consistently give updates and produce semi-regular releases for the game, and then out of nowhere a tragedy strikes and almost all of his stuff is totally ruined in apartment flooding. I mean, it's possible, but the fact that he's not even posted a status update on Patreon since March (even "Hey, still don't have a new machine" or "I took my hard drive to a shop and they managed to retrieve 30% of my data") is kind of par for the course with this developer. (Ever heard of signing in on a site with, you know, a cell phone?) He doesn't communicate well and disappears often. So it's kind of expected, to be honest.