Seems the obsession with Star Citizen, CIG and Chris Roberts is so deep that it makes them blind to the fact that every other companies face the same hurdles.
Actually I don't know if it's because of simple ignorance about game development or if it's just that they hold such a strong personal grudge about Star Citizen because they got emotionally wounded for it not living up to their expectations that they just want to find ways to rationalize their frustration by trying to find reasons "bad" at the cost of reality. Or maybe it's a bit of both.
Considering that there are ample examples of similar dev struggles happening with other kickstarted mmo's. Everyone adapts the scope of their games along development, changes or removing features, has troubles hiring staff, struggles with network and performance issues and so on. The thing is that most of it happens behind doors and protected by NDA testing so it's not so exposed to the whole gaming world who's comprised of mostly people ignorant of the game development process.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-sci-fi-mmorpg
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...one-war-pc-mmo
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...aken-virtues-0
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...elot-unchained
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...trepid-studios
Guess all these studios are
"liars", "scammers", "incompetent", "perfectionists", "feature creepers" for missing their "deadlines", not having set release dates, still doing core work in their engine etc etc...
Some haters got so deeply trapped in the mindset of "Star Citizen is bad" to justify whatever emotional hurdles they got from having their hearts broken to the point of frantically wishing for a video-game to "burn".
Such individuals that can't accept the unpredictably of crowdfunded game development and the uncertainties that comes with them.
It's clear that the problem rely's not in Chris Roberts, Star Citizen, crowdfunding or open game development but with people being able to manage their emotions and expectations while accepting that they can't know or control everything and that trowing tantrums about it year after year is not productive.