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Untold Dawn is a futuristic sci-fi game on a new planet. So essentially you are gaining the fantastical elements of future tech with the gritty danger of an untamed/uncivilized world.

I'm pretty sympathetic towards your view migrant and I don't know who Rune is or whoever he might have been on Armageddon sounds like they were after my time.

I will say this though.

1. People who choose public roles in game development need to understand they are going to be criticized and unfairly. It is noble to ask people to "be sure" but someone can be 100% sure and the public staffer might have a completely different view on the situation.
2. If you don't want negativity/criticism than don't be a public staff member. Have someone else manage the community and address concerns/complaints and just have a separate account to do discord announcements and focus on metaplot / coding.
3. The truth is absolute defense against rumors and transparency is the means of delivery. As I've stated since I left RPIs exclusively I have traveled far and wide and broadened my RP experiences and contributions. This includes becoming staff in communities with 1000s of players and doxxed/criticized by larger communities. If you're good you're good and if you have conviction and thought behind your design choices than you can defend them and if they end up being unpopular despite your conviction than you can change direction. It's really that simple.
4. Look at Helldiver 2 devs/community managers during their messups and Dungeons and Dragons designers/community managers after every Hasbro fuckup the last year and every MU* staff team ever. No one is special everyone is criticized.

I hate betterdiscord, when I was actively developing for a game we used to make fake channel names to fuck with people who used that to see things they shouldn't on servers.

Can you imagine if Viv water was distilled water, so drinking it just washed essential nutrients from your system and killed you slowly?

Is no OOC communication a hallmark of an RPI? I know that limited OOC channels in-game is but I'm not sure out of game non-communication is a pre-requisite.

See the issue is all these staffers keep saying this will be their last post and sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.

I'd really like more information on why the staff team felt overwhelmed. What busywork was causing animations and day to day to literally make someone have their significant other mention they've been absent for a month (less romantic). It's a pretty frequent question how a staff team the size it did was suffering burnout and issues that it was with the size of the playerbase.

Remember that time I spent over 10,000 dollars trying to develop a professional MUD and failed due to runway?

Personally I do think there is a market in text-based games because story and narrative have value. I believe that even more after moving on from RPIs and doing all those other RP communities. The issue that I had back then was I was not a coder but now I can muddle through and I did not possess enough $$$ to fund the development long enough to get to the end. I think anyone developing any type of game will tell you that $$$ to offset the time especially when you actually know what you're doing is probably the biggest hurdle. There is a reason gaming studios release games incomplete. Those years of development where they are paying these teams to work on something are years where they are losing money on that project and eventually you have to stop spending and start earning. For text-based games given the smaller audience and the fact almost all the codebases except FutureMUD and Evennia are copyrighted to free that makes it pretty hard.