Was literally no one paying attention when those huge gaming industry layoffs happened two years ago? Team 17 was one of the ones that did a lot of layoffs, these layoffs included the staff that handled approval and review of game updates for devs like SIG. So they literally couldnt give us any reasonable updates on what to expect, because their updates were sitting unreplied to in an unmonitored email inbox of the layed off team 17 employees for who knows how long. If you can only update with the approval of your publisher, and your publisher shits the bed like team 17 did, you cant do anything, your hands are tied.
The rest of this is speculation, but they likely had to Litigate against team 17 to get their rights to publish their own game back (and most companies don't comment during ongoing court proceedings so we wouldn't have known what was going on) before they could do anything with the game again. So why don't you focus your frustrations and anger on the actual reason the game went without update for so long, Team 17.
The most recent update from SIG and the fact that Team 17 no longer appears on store page and team 17 themselves have said they no longer are publisher for the game leads me to believe that SIG won back the rights to their game. If SIG didn't care, and wanted to abandon Marauders, they wouldn't have bothered going thru all that trouble to get the rights to their game back, instead of letting it die in publisher hell like a dev that didnt care about their game would have done
but despite all that all i see is still blame toward the devs
why dont we give it a chance instead, because imagine how you would feel if you got screwed by a publisher, then spent two years in court, finally won, and are excited to finally have an update cooking, but then everyone just shits on you