so for the first part of ur message i got some insight
remember game Erolon Dungeon Bound?dev took different approach and made it free to play and free to support, however game hasnt been updated in whole year and thanks to dev being still active here i talked to him, he actually said that he and artist actually live in the area where cost of living and getting money only from the game became unsustainable and he was not able to pay artist enough or artist started to make one picture a month instead of 4 pictures a month
i dont know if this is true as he started to make another game but with different art style... it might be the reason why some devs are acting like this after some time,if u live in places like California (may God have mercy on ur soul
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) and u doing this game on patreon, suddenly ur bills go up and making game is not enough anymore so it became ur second income and u have to devote less time in it because u had to find a real job still if thats the case DEV SHOULD INFORM HIS BACKERS and not hide those things up, cutting work in half on the game should also mean cutting ur patreon income in half finding second job is not solution here if u still want to be game developer, i would advice moving out to cheaper places like Bulgaria or Baltic States where ur dollars quadruple in value and u wont risk urself for being cut off from ur funds by politics (like devs living in Russia right now)