Love the info on the stats, that makes me happy to know. Not sarcasm, being sincere. So, thank you for posting that. I honestly assumed the number of de-listed items to have been much higher in the percentage.
I will correct your improper use of italics however, as you don't quote someone with italics, but with quotation marks - hence the 'quot' in 'quotation' - so your initial post just came off as if you were placing emphasis on on words to stress them for your own sake, and the italics were still misused either way. (Edit: I just saw you also already fixed it into quotes and of the entire several words used rather than just the emphasis on 'anything'. Thank you, as it looks much less hostile now. lol)
I somewhat disagree with your statement of "we have to comply with it even if we disagree with it". You aren't being lorded over by government officials, the rule is being offered by a credit card company (well, two that I am aware of). You have every legal right to raise a middle finger and sever services with them. You are choosing not to. Again, as I said before, I understand that most of your revenue probably passes through their hands and not everyone would be like me and value principles over money, but personally, I'd not bend to the knee to either of them. There are many other ways to transfer money. But, your website, so I'm not here to tell you what to do with it. I'm just stating my feelings. I sincerely hope things work out with your choice and that MasterCard and Visa don't end up severing services with you anyway as they have with other websites in the past even after removal of all adult content on them. And I sincerely hope when all of this blows over it doesn't effect the future of Itch.io negatively.
Anyway, your site has been a huge service to me, and I want to end on a good note to show I'm not trying to be mean or angry at all, so I wanted to thank you for what you have built here. If all of this blows to shit, I at least want to give my thanks for your services and let you know some of these devs have given me safe outlets to filter my depression into when I was going through a hard time and I would have never discovered them if it weren't for your site. So, sincerely, thank you.