Its more that no one wanted to burn themselves out on early access before the real thing came out but actually it was the bear sex
surprised how successful this was since it barely got a mention all the time it was in early access so thought it would have a relatively mild release but no the g*mers heard bear sex and everyone flooded in to buy it.
A good PM makes all the difference but its rare to come across any. My current one has the memory of a goldfish and is more interested in telling me how to code even though he’s a novice programmer who’s never done anything professionally.