They are just stating that they would handle the circumstance differently..Honestly most of you shouldn't be complaining about the release date, because if your complaining here your not paying towards the creator on patreon, which means your complaining about getting something complaning on patreon, which means your getting it for free while other people are covering your costs.
The least you can be is patient considering your being stingy bastards xP
Like instead of going offline when a patreon asks if the schedule is still standing, you could have posted:
It's going to get late.
.. and that they would be fine with such an approach.
I don't see why you would blame someone for saying something like that.