Those comments probably come from people used to early access and not really finished 1.0 releases. With those, checking for updates is a good way of measuring

Those comments probably come from people used to early access and not really finished 1.0 releases. With those, checking for updates is a good way of measuring chance of a finished release just like checking recent commits in a git repo. In the other hand there's people disappointed with devs moving on from finished projects in a healthy way. For example lots of people are in the Noita community. It's not bad to wish for more content of something you like. That being said there's probably a crazy guy making death threats if there are no more Noita updates but those do not represent the community at large, just as the comments you link don't probably represent those communities.