I empathize with the developers because unannounced interruptions to their revenue streams are not good.

You can emphasize with suddenly telling companies to get fucked and figure it out themselves during a time of REALLY big economic certainty (seriously, game dev is a wasteland) and think it is “not good”? Good for you!

given a timeline of “IMMEDIATELY OR ELSE” and had to shut off the tap and adjust or risk their own ability to receive ANY payments.

That REALLY isn’t how things work and that still doesn’t excuse silence outside of whinging on discord.

Remember, itch IS NOT the bad guy here, it’s the payment processors. Do not lose sight of that.

There are multiple “bad guys” here.

People, good people, fuck up all the time. How they manage the mistake matters more than the mistake itself.

Say it with me: Corporations are not people.

Good, itch fucked up. Really great that absolutely nobody else has been impacted except for John Itch. Oh… wait…

Like, seriously, read what you fucking posted. “I can understand how companies might have been afraid that they would be forced to fire everyone they work with and go bankrupt but, really, isn’t the important thing that itch learned a lesson?”. Like… the only thing missing was a ukelele.