"Easy to be on your high horse until someone threatens your entire livelihood"
This is an absurd statement to make considering that what has happened here has threatened the livelihood of a bunch of developers who make NSFW content.
Itch is a victim sure, but itch is not guilt free. Itch's job was to provide these small developers without resources a platform to host their creations, and as part of that job, Itch was expected to provide a degree of safety and stability. Itch suddenly deciding to capitulate without giving any warning or time for these developers to react has absolutely obliterated their livelihood. Itch took no steps to actually try to protect the interests of the people who make the product that they sell. They are complicit in the havoc done to hundreds of developers livelihoods.