I would understand you if this game cost 10-30+ dollars, but it costs 3 dollars. Are you guys so broke or what? Don't you want to support the developer once again for a good game?
No, we are not BROKE. But this move showed that Mike is Greedy. First of all, people that want to play multiplayer they have to buy game again. Sure its not much from our side(which it is a big commitment in my country because inflation is a bastard), but since this forces us to buy game again it means that Dev gonna make shit ton of money. All Mike had to do was put a announcement post about steam version being in development
even if this game cost $10-30+ on itch, the dev is gonna sell the game again on Steam for the same price and we have to rebuy it again. It is not about the money/price it is about the principles.
Don't tell me that you are willing the rebuy the same AAA game on different platforms everytime (3x 50$ for example).
Without the itch support/funds, the Steam version will probably not exist.