I don't get your point.
MeshedVR has been working on VaM 0.x/1.x all by himself, and started working on some stuff for version 2.x in 2020. And because he has such a huge supporting community (btw: I'm supporting him on "Creator" tier since 2018 on Patreon -- crazy, huh?) he is able to pay a team of people to work for/with him on version 2.x, which is basically a complete rewrite of the program itself. And yes, the UI on VaM is shite, but once you get used to it, it's kinda manageable. And because he's not actively working on improving 1.x anymore (just some small fixes every now and then), we'll have to live with that. The UI in 2.x will be something completely different, but as nobody has seen any of it yet, we can't judge, right?
Also: MeshedVR never at any point gave away any ETA for a version 2.x release! If you refer to some forum posts that were "hyping a 2.x release within a year" -- that's probably just some posts from people who have absolutely no effing clue about how complex it is to write such a piece of software.
And about his income and whether or not he's a billionaire: what's your issue with that? He wrote the best VR sandbox that's available as of today. Nobody, not a single developer or a team of developers or even an "AAA studio" has created anything like it! Why is that? In my opinion he deserves every penny that his supporters are willing to pay! When Notch published his first version of Minecraft in 2009, I played it -- there were no mods, no shaders, there was no "end game" or anything close. We just dug up blocks of dirt and wood and built boxes aka "houses" out of those. Today Minecraft is the
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of all time, and Notch is a billionaire, and he deserves it. Same as MeshedVR -- he develops the best VR sandbox, so he deserves all the money he can get!
Last but not least: VaM 1.20 is great -- and it's even greater because of the way everyone can create and share content for it! I've been using VaM when there was (almost) no way for us to add additional content, and even at that point the "base" (VaM itself) was solid and impressive. VaM 2.x will be even better (at least we all hope so, and the current tech demo looks promising!), but to get there, it takes time!