Utterly Mad

"Indie Dev" is a pretty generous title for most early access developers.

An example I can think of is starforge. Anybody remember starforge? It was originally marketed as a minecraft tower defense game, and turned into a space minecraft type game. Development was going fine until they suddenly found themselves drowning in money. What did they do with that money? They burned through it before you could say "NO STARFORGE WAIT!!" They spent ALL of their budget almost instantly by hiring a bunch of professional game devs, IMMEDIATELY had to let them go along with half of their original team, and released starforge as it is now, a broken horrible mess.

and then they made reign of kings.