From one of the top developers of Kerbal. He makes a good point about people who speculate about things they know nothing about:

" Probably because when people asked for confirmation of horrible working conditions, but instead got an honest accounting of my interactions, it did not fit the torches and pitchforks narrative.

I work reasonable hours. I get reasonable, agreed to compensation for that time. I have been doing dev a long time, not the first rodeo. I find the management reasonable, and they have repeatedly expressed that we were not to work ridiculous hours or weekends, etc. and have been reasonable when adjusting priorities, offering additional time as needed and only dictating the order of the business needs. i.e. rational, reasonable stuff that I would expect from an employer.

I have seen teams flee from horrible employers. I have seen teams move from reasonable ones for better opportunities. I've lost engineers because the fit was not right, and I've walked away from jobs that were handing me sacks of cash with dollar signs on them. People move on, and they usually do so in waves. I've been the leader on more than one of those waves myself (one company lost their entire IT and engineering staff in less than three months... they rehired, and are fine now), and have had to mitigate damage from mutinies and make sure the business was solid because one guy got grouchy and took half a dozen buddies with him to a new job.

But one common thread in all of that - I respected the wishes of my coworkers and employer, and respected people's privacy.

I am speaking for myself, so take that how you will. Though the implication that I am some kind of 'puppet' is kinda nuts. I do this because it's fun and I enjoy the folks I work with (by the way, there are more than two developers left, so that fact is incorrect). And I respect the folks that moved on to other things (or back to modding). I also respect that their views and experiences may be very different than mine. Or exactly the same, but their great grand uncle left them all a sack of solid gold ingots. Or that what I find reasonable they find unreasonable. Or any number of reasons that they alone know. But given how much grief I've gotten today (being called a liar and worse), I don't blame them one bit for sitting this one out."