Sorry thepurplepug, I was confused by the way this discussion system works (I'm an old forum-geezer...) so I stupidly thought your message was a reply to mine, while it was a reply to the OP, Colonel Gerard...
So, for anybody that happens to wonder what I thought and what I wrote... Since I was confusing the two users with the same profile picture, I apologized because I tried to summarize a wider discussion in a too short post, and said "I never meant to be rude or disrespectful, neither to the OP nor to Dan Salvato or any other person who works with him - and if you read the Reddit thread I linked above, you'll see that nobody from that community of hardcore DDLC fans ever called me rude.
While I unfortunately never made games, I'm a professional computer programmer so I know how hard is to make good software, and exactly for this reason I greatly admire whoever can make great games like this one - with extra kudos points of them being a small indie team, not backed by megacorps. I'm sorry if my English-fu is bad and the received message sounded like exactly the opposite that I wanted to send."