What irks me the wrong way is how some gamers act as if developers with crunch time have it sooo bad, calling for petitions, boycott, outrage, etc..
Crunch time sucks. It does. But the truth is almost every business on earth has its hands in shady shit. You only keep buying these products because you DON'T KNOW about it. Because if you knew, you'd have to acknowledge it.
The cobalt in your fancy Tesla's battery? Dug up by 10 year-olds who die of cobalt poisoning shortly after.
Your fancy iphone? Assembled by poor chinese workers who literally live to work. Btw not just iphones, but most electronics.
The meat you eat? Coming from the animal-version of Holocaust KZs. Your fruits and vegetables? Grown in artificial mega plantations, destroying the natural environment and being harvested by illegal refugees who can't afford to say no to ridiculous low wages.
And so on!
I'm not saying 'stop caring'. But maybe choose more carefully what to care about. I'm not sure if well-paid, highly-educated developers need to be cared about before starving children and hopleless quasi-slaves. But I can already smell the outraged 'whataboutism!!1' screeches ...