Originally posted by Redemption:

Finally someone with sense who is willing to call the unthankful people out.

I guess this is the most philosophically interesting thing to think about - the thankfulness of the user in this case. It brings into question what the purpose of early access games actually is. Is it meant to be startup cash for a developer's passion project, something that they will effortlessly pursue? Is it just meant to be a means to buy an unfinished game at a discount, with any future work being incidental?

Depending on the goal and its contrapositive, it can be understood who is meant to be thankful for whom and what the objective is in the first place.

Is the developer expected to be thankful for early investment? Then it must be because they want to see the game through or expect most of their revenues to come in at the end.

Is the user expected to be thankful for continued updates? Then it must be because the game was sold unfinished for a profit.

Which one is it for this game?