It's honestly an issue with indie games in general. They're frequently very long-term passion projects, and when a creator's on their own or in a small group, it doesn't take much for a game to get left by the wayside.
That said, the furry game scene exploded with the pandemic, and circumstances have been changing rapidly for a lot of people in that time.
I do agree that acknowledgement would be really nice... but I also know that if I'm unable to, say, respond to a text message in a reasonable time frame, or spend a little too long away from a close-knit community somewhere online, anxiety rapidly snowballs until I can't bring myself to engage at all when I do manage to remember. So I get it, even if it sucks.