Wait, what? Can you tell what it was like with Yanfly? I had no idea that was why he "disappeared". Was anyone really rude enough to have a problem with this? And the fact that Yanfly was so polite was his decision. If other paid plugins were good or better than his, people would buy them, so those who harmed Yanfly can only blame themeselves!
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There's the full story (or at least his side of it) over on his website.
http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Fossil_and_Friends_Start_Drama
Unfortunately altruism is incredibly undervalued in this community nowadays. Though that shouldn't be too surprising, you only have to take one look at the rpgmakerwebs twitter which is 90% adverts for paid DLC to see where the value of that stuff tends to lie.