asshole on the internet [..] I am, however, a gamer

That's why we value your opinion 🙂

make it multi-player, I will play the crap out of your game

We'll see you around then since PVP is in the making 😄

gameplay is always more important than economics

True, that's the ultimate goal. But it takes time.
It took us only 4 months to get our 1st alpha live (October -> February 22), so for me that was already a miracle. It took a LOT of hard work and at least we did not start selling with a promise of a game 3 years later, like other projects do.
We had/have to start from somewhere and try and get some funds to grow the team with more game devs.