When I had the argument with cheeky it was nothing of what you mentioned. It was the April fools back in 2022 of f95.... he was bitching without even knowing what kind of version it was. And it was a file, that was not working at all.
Oh yeah, I remember that now. F95's worst April Fool's ever.
It wasn't just Cheeky who was pissed at that, a lot of the fans were too. It genuinely was not funny.
And even so, F95 is a piracy site, so there will be alpha or beta versions leaked. a lot of people seem to forget that.
And if the dev has a problem with that F95, is the wrong place to bitch about it, imo.

There's such a thing as standards, even when committing crimes. That's why leakers and pirates are terms used independently of each other.
Take the example of Project Myriam then.
Patreon release and a week later a public version that includes more than is in the Patreon version, and is shared here by the dev, on purpose...
The Patreon version gets shared here which leads to people questioning where certain content is that was in the previous version they played that happens to be things Patreon forced Zorlun to remove, and is put back in with the "Prometheus Patch" version from Subscribestar. This happens multiple times with the "usual suspects" complaining about content disappearing in the game and issues with mods designed to work with the later *intended* version, despite the numerous times Zorlun asks for the Patreon version not to be shared here - the Patron(s) who share from Patreon are in fact doing a disservice to the community here, instead of waiting for the "full" version from another site to be released before sharing here.
So, good pirate distributes what is better and intended for release. Bad pirate is a self-important prick who only cares about being the one to do the pirating first regardless of whether or not it's a working product.