I haven't read into the situation, but I have a feeling that it wasn't just one dev who went full handicap, but rather several varying actions by various devs that have disappointed the, well, non-ignorant fanbase.
Am I correct?
no
people have been crying because of the lack of ingame updates because theyre too lazy or ignorant to read the blog that is updated almost daily with sneak peeks of new contents and some other stuff, that and, well, the fact that they relocated the entirety of their team to one place, which was also good
this is why chucklefish souldnt have let themselves be coerced into releasing an early access beta, people just dont deserve this sort of stuff