He mainly focuses on trying to keep the game out of the hands of pirates and modders who want to restore what he removed to comply with Patreon using DRM that, at one point, caused severe performance issues.
Unfortunatelly, since 0.32b it's gone downhill.... Performance Dropped, Quality dropped, animations become kinda half-assed, amount of time between each update increase tenfolds.
As of now I'm mainly playing this game for what it once was...
Maybe dev got scared of moving to subscribestar or other plataform because he had quite a number of patrons at that time.
Anyway this topic was already discussed around here so yep... Sadge