It has nothing to do with "denying one of the fundamentals of this forum" or even any "double standards"
The dev is nice enough to give us a public release merely weeks after patreon release ; so there's no point in releasing it earlier here aside from doing damage to the dev's number of pledgers.
100%.....
If a pledger's only incentive to pledge is that they get it a couple weeks before everyone else, and the new update gets leaked a couple weeks before the dev would have released it to public, then the pledgers literally have zero incentive and will stop donating to the dev. Devs who start losing money will do a number of things, including abandonment.
I know I am on a pirate site, saying this, but people in today's society seem to think they're owed everything. I grew up in the days prior to free downloading/pirating, when we had to buy a CD at full price, get 12 for a penny each, subscribe then buy one more CD at full price, rip all the CDs to our computer that had no modem and no internet, and only had a couple games, DOS prompt, and Encyclopedia Brittanica, then sell all the CDs at the local record shop to make money. lol
THAT was pirating before all this.
DO NOT ABUSE WHAT WE HAVE. As wrong as pirating is, in any form, we are on a pirating site where the dev actually just gives it to us for free, and people STILL feel the need to abuse that, as if waiting 2 effin' weeks isn't enough. Greed kills.