I mean, far as I understand it’s not actually at the cost of that pervy segment. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that every game that was delisted is gone forever, when from the start itch has indicated that it’s a temporary measure to avoid having a financial nuke dropped on them while they review the games one-by-one.
I don’t want to completely downplay the fact that some portion is likely to stay down…that still sucks. But from where I’m sitting, it sure seems like Itch is doing their best to preserve as much as they can with the extremely limited resources they have. I think some people are forgetting that Itch has a massively larger library than steam, while operating with a minuscule fraction of the resources & workforce–it takes them forever to do shit because they’re way overstretched.
I think it’s reasonable to say that this is hurting a ton of people, or that Itch should’ve planned for this situation better in order to minimize the damage (this happens to every platform that hosts adult content, sooner or later). But it feels like most of the folks I see talking about this mess are just yelling “HOW COULD YOU!” at Itch as if it would be better to ignore an existential threat to the site and immediately destroy every developer’s livelihood, and I don’t really see the point of that.