Not to be offensive in this conversation, but it feels really weird how MSV6 & Frontiers have been treated in the SRB2 Community horribly, and even if I wasn't around to see or guess what people were vandalizing both for. It is only to notice that some recreations and leaks are out there, that are just getting bigger by modifying them to match the mods themself. Only to hurt the devs even more, to the point where they can't work on it anymore.
But, even without this huge growth in the SRB2 Community. It would've been much different. But, even if this keeps going for other big mods out there. It's gonna suck, even to where cancelling them can be a disappointment to everybody. At least some mods weren't shockingly attractive, other than those 2. Though it still doesn't give them the motivation they need without hurting them. But that's how everything goes in life.
It's just that the behaviour that strikes the devs gives them more motivation. They need that kind of attention to grow themselves more, to keep going. But it can't work without anybody vandalizing their addon and trying to leak or recreate it entirely, that'll lead to more problems. But, again, that's how everything goes in life.