Why are you compelled to defend this? Honestly I don't get it. Early supporters in any other scenario would usually receive compensation for supporting early development. As a thank you for allowing the developer to be able to fund further development. That's pretty standard. In this scenario people are mostly asking for a steam key because they're being treated better. They're getting features that aren't going to be even be added here and are also getting updates 2 weeks earlier. It’s pretty reasonable for people to feel a little betrayed for seemingly being treated worse despite being the reason development probably continued at all.