Are you seriously questioning why a dev would leave this thread? This forum? If I had one piece of advice that I could give devs, it would be to avoid this forum at all costs. There is nothing to be gained here that cannot be gained in a place with more appropriate critics.
It is possible for us to discuss something and disagree on many points. But I only follow certain people in this thread. I ignore the rest. Why would a dev, who is busy creating a game and dealing with everything else that goes with it, worry about maintaining a presence here? Who to listen to, who to ignore.
You can join any of his formal contact points free of charge. If you are concerned about not being heard, go there.
My recommendation when seeing the attacks, complaints (like those about the rework - which ignore Why Ocean is doing the rework) and entitled troll behavior Ocean was seeing is to pick a few trustworthy supporters to review F95 in his stead.
Let them summarize anything of value found and Ocean continues with the Important work - continuing to create SG and WIAB, without the negativity found on F95.
Do we want a dev spending his valuable time refuting trolls on this thread or do we want the dev to spend that time giving us better updates faster?
Ocean's time and focus have value.
I think this move is a no brainer.
For those who want to have a conversation, there is his Discord and there is always the option to support via Patreon /SS.
Cheers!!