I see, so you did trick Itch to treat each update as a different game on purpose to sell your early releases before public releases. 😏
To be fair, this is only the second time that you actually explain your way of using Itch and this second "attempt" of yours merely confirmed what I theorized which is why you started it with "Yes, you read correctly" as I already understood the first time but needed confirmation that I was correct or if I got it wrong.
And you are explaining this only now because up until now, when you were asked why you keep replacing the game's page, you pretended that you did it out of ignorance because you didn't know how Itch works but now I see that you very well understand how to trick Itch, you sly fox. 😼
While I now understand your purpose of creating a new game's page at each update of the same game in order to sell each early release even if people already paid for the game, I'm still not sure if this is necessary because there might be a way to add new paying content without replacing the game's page as I seem to recall this occurring onto other games' page where their creator merely updated the page to add some new paying content such as DLCs so Itch might have already thought of a way to let you do orderly what you have been doing in your own messy way and this might be worth checking, don't you think? 😉
And come to think of it, if your goal is to sell every early release then you might as well create a new game's page for every update in order to make people pay again for each early update while keeping the main game's page that you actually update with every public release and onto which you could present the game's description and keep your development log which would be more stable than replacing everything all the time and you might even not need to create any other page if you can add new paying content to a game's page as I think then you might simply sell your early releases as DLCs which Itch would then treat as new content even if people already paid for a previous early release as Itch would consider "this is a new DLC and people paid for another DLC so they have to pay for this one as well" then you would simply remove the "DLC" and update the main downloads with public releases and that's it, how do you like it? 😉