A) Every developer out there being a lazy fucker doesn't excuse it. If everyone you met used your mouth as a toilet would you be okay with your breath tasting like shit all of the time? No, no you wouldn't. 'Milfy City.
Summertime Saga.
Akabur's Channel 34.
WT Silver's.
Mitty's trainer.
Roguelike.
Every game above and tons of other games too, have the same problems. Bugs, complaints about quality and quantity of content, etc. So, if you will stop and think for a little bit, you'll have 2 possible explanations of this.
A) Every developer out here is a lazy fucker, with no exceptions - because every game is going on a similar pace - if you'll compare amount of content added on a scale of 1 year, you'll probably notice that. Maybe the laziness comes with a profession, who knows.
B) This shit is not as easy as it looks to you.
As for the suckers - I don't know, it's debatable, maybe contributing 1 buck each month to GSG makes me a sucker, maybe not, I don't know. I mean, I also give 1 buck to Zulin, too, ahh, but you probably don't know who it is.
What you know, and everyone else knows too, that there is one thing that makes any person a sucker - it's counting other people's money. If you think that they do not deserve their patreon money - it's your right to think that. If you think that content provided by GSG is unsatisfactory - ok, fair enough. You may even consider not pledging yourself - the game is free, so you'll not lose anything of value and still have an option to bitch and complain any time you want. But for the Great Scott, please , leave your long nose out of other people affairs and wallets, because it makes you look like an idiot.
B) I know it's not as easy as it looks, I have experience working in game development. Like actual game development. For actual video game publishers. However cutting that was supposed to be the main focus of the update, replacing it with two characters with less content than what the main character would have had and one of which is completely and totally bugged to the point of it not working all, and putting it out with missing art assets as well? That's not due to laziness, it's not due to difficulty, it's due to incompetence. Games will always release with bugs, it is 100% impossible for them not to. That doesn't excuse GSG for failing to release over a third of the promised content and a progress stalling bug which is impossible not to notice. THey took an extra week to work on it and still released a broken, two minute long update.