Personally happy to see that other animators stepped up when FOW finally left SFM. Blender's been a boon for certain animators, and even those that stayed in SFM have shown some quality works (Big Johnson, Sinthetic, noname55, etc). I understand people want FOW's longer animations back, but if everything in the game was 5 minute clips, then when the actual romantic content came along, it wouldn't seem as special, now would it?
Regarding your second point of comparing games, I took a look into Hades, which is Supergiant's 4th game after Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre (so already the comparison is moot, as you're comparing devs that have already released several games to a studio doing its first). Even so Hades took about 3 years to complete. It's written on Supergiant's own website:
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As for your 2nd example Rocket League, Psyonix developed 5 games before Rocket League (again making the comparison moot), but curiously their first speed car game,
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didn't set the world on fire. And they didn't make Rocket League til 7 years later. And still took them 2 years to make.
Do present your next argument, and try to be a bit more realistic