I would guess he did something that was actually ban worthy (maybe without realizing) and just accepted the account reinstatement, hence "Google finally reached out and was able to provide a lot of transparency around the situation" being enough to satisfy him. Or they just offered him a bunch of money

It's suspected that Relogic's Youtube account being banned had something to do with it. Then Google's machine learning probably decided that guilt by association was enough to lock down everything that it had touched or been touched by.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-c...