Yeah, like I don’t want to pretend that it’s gonna be over in a jiffy or that the situation doesn’t extremely suck.
At the same time, as much as I’d love that visible genAI labeling I doubt it was actually that high on their priorities list–more of a declaration that they’re going to do it as part of their ongoing work on the site. By contrast, I’m pretty sure this mess is priority #1 for Itch right now since it represents a major threat to their business (for both market share & PR reasons).
It’s still going to take a while, way too fuckn long, just due to the volume of work–but I don’t think they’re being actively deceptive or acting in bad faith here, which is a vibe I kinda read from your OP. It seems more like they got taken by surprise and are trying to simultaneously deal with the immediate PR fallout from their base while also sifting through thousands of games by hand.