Bedlam used to be the gold standard for an h-game dev to me. They released regular updates and consistent blog/patreon posts detailing their work. Consistent, regular updates are really nice, and if that can't happen then consistent communication about what work is being done is also pretty great. So it definitely sucks that 2022 basically saw both those thing melt away. Update rate dropped off a cliff and the communication about why and what was happening got pretty sporadic. And now the last thing we hear is that eye problems have cropped up and then radio silence, which is pretty worrying.
At the end of the day, it's just a porn game. I don't want anyone hurting themselves to make it. But it is very disappointing that one of the most reliable devs has become one of the least in such a short amount of time. Especially when their game is trapped on RAGS, which is really tedious and I rarely have the patience to fight with it to play the game anymore. I really wish they had focused on the conversion because while each new update usually has at least one piece of content I like, it doesn't really matter if I can't be fucked to deal with RAGS. The thought that the game might never be converted now sucks.
I think people would be less harsh if this eye thing had cropped up a year ago, before (presumably) other shit tanked the update rate. One of the most reliable devs having health problems is worth a lot of sympathy points. However, after a year of shit communication and fuck all content having that thrown on top was bound to piss some people off. I doubt Bedlam is faking, the artist for Karryn's Prison also had eye problems in 2022 and needed surgery for them, but I don't blame anyone that has run out patience.