Considering Itch was complicit in the actions, by trying to stealthily hide and remove nsfw games, and games that weren't nsfw (which goes BEYOND what the payment people asked!)...
No. Blaming itch is apt, and correct.
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Complicit as far being threatened is involved... no one would locically want to be hit from a shitstorm like this, anyone could predict such outcome, so it's impossible they would have done willingly.
The bad thing they did was was panicking and remove everything in one block, unlike Steam which checked the game list with more attention than that.
We can blame itch for having handled the situation pretty bad, but i won't tear it apart for being forced by payment processors to remove games.
Why there are so few threads about make it pay to Collective Shout and Payment processors, compared to raging at Itch? You guys are really missing the true point