The reason why that mantra is often stated is because it's true. Sure, there are exceptions to it, but there's a valid reason that's not applicable to everyone (mainly the initial budget so they can provide it cheap on a large scale).
Yes, we all know the old saying - "The exception proves the rule!"
All I did was point out that Amazon is such an exception.
You know what else is also an exception? Early smartphones. The first smartphones were better than their typical cell-phone counterparts/competitors (
good), faster than those competitors (
fast), and relatively cheaper (meaning that the cost of the smartphone relative to all the things it could do was much better than the cost of the cell-phone relative to the few things it could do -
cheap).
In the end, my comment was only a response to the mantra and not anything else. Which is kind of why I only quoted the mantra and nothing else.
But the reason why you got so much "hate" for it was because the initial post complained it'll never finish with the quality the game has right now, so obviously, anything that tries to counter any reason why the long updates are justified implies they're not valid excuses.
(1) If you read my earlier post more carefully, I never said, nor implied, that I got any hate. I only said that Amazon is hated - which it is.
(2) It's obvious that quality game updates take time, which is why I never complain about update wait-times. Well, except for "Summertime Saga." But that's only because Dark Cookie pulls in so much Patreon money that he could afford to hire a full-on team to help him develop.
(3) My original post was only meant to provide a counter-example to the mantra, to show that the old mantra isn't all-encompassing as many like to believe. Just because you inferred from it that I believe reasons for long wait-times are all non-valid does not mean that I implied it.
(4) Even though I'm a strong believer that players should learn to be patient for updates to their favorite games (especially when the games are provide for free), to be fair to the serial complainers, not every excuse for long updates is a valid one. Most indeed are! But not all!