it’s a double edged sword really,

it allows some games to get enough funding to be finished. indi devs can basically start with a strong demo & then work on their project with an actual budget

and it allows other games to never be finished and still sold, indi devs can start strong, and then give up, and still make passive income out of people who don’t scroll down to reviews to check if people aren’t complaining about the game being abandoned, or in forever-early-acess-hell