lol, probably 90% of devs are like that, most games get abandoned and rarely does one ever reach "completed" status, I have personally had prolly 25+ devs take my money & run... They are all gangbusters at the start, then contract mental illness or their cousin's best friend has a death in the family and they go dark for 6 months! Or Patreon does a TOC and they lack the nerve to move to SS. It's always funny the wars that break out about "milking" but it's the patrons themselves that drive that! The devs produce games every month to get you hooked (like a crack dealer) then when they get 5k, 10k a month they drop off the face of the earth, then you get monthly "I'm working on it updates" on Patreon... But tell me, you people that have jobs, if you go to work month after month and don't do anything, how long would you be employed? If you worked for me and I payed you 10k a month and every 30th you told me "I'm working on it", after 2 months you'd be working on your spot in the unemployment line! The simple fact is that the patrons hold the power! When a dev doesn't produce shit, pull your fucking money! This makes the devs stay honest if they want the income! If you just pledge into a black hole, it's on you if you don't get, what you thought what you were paying for. Just remember you can buy a PS4 game for around $80 and get weeks to months to years of enjoyment on it but for an erotic novel you drop $20 a month to get the SE version for a year and not even get sex with the character you have been pining for, before it gets abandoned or goes dark...
Let's not even get started on the games that have $50-$200 a month tiers...
If you want to be a douchebag and facepalm me, have at' er... Douchebag...
I'm always up for a fight...