I really don't understand the reaction to criticism for Saddog. Sure, it's his game and he doesn't really owe anything to anyone but he promised an update on June 19th or 20th "depending on testing" (and he made that promise a couple days before those dates, which together with the wording gave the distinct impression the update was ready) and he's been silent ever since. And it's not the first time something similar has happened. I am not going to be a hypocrite and say that if he'd given an update everything would be ok, people would still complain (welcome to the internet) but this pattern of making unrealistic promises and then going silent is not a good look, especially when you contrast it with the approach of someone like SAZ, who has no Patreon and therefore no financial incentive and yet goes out of his way to keep people informed.
Personally I don't care. I follow plenty of devs who consistently update, and/or consistently talk to their patreon and some of them show some love to their f95 followers even(a majority of my sig games). So as much as I love this game, it's the reason I won't recommend this game. So I'll wait and see what become of this game.
This game is amazing. The art, story, paths. I'm sure he is working on the game, but I can't really blindly trust either. But I pointed plenty of time to Saz mod as an amazing addition. Staying silent while still getting paid just feel off.
So I won't ever talk about this game outside of this thread because of that, but I don't see him as bad as the other infamous devs. I just really don't understand this way of building trust in your brand, which I feel for an indie dev should be pretty important. I've seen what happens in other threads when the dev acts like that(the thread just become a shit show, and I don't want this thread to be like that).