>There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I just use “Beware of Leopard!” as shorthand for this phenomenon.

It's worse than it seems.

The very first mention of "spider" on that Discord was already the release announcement of a version containing it and got negative reactions: https://i.imgur.com/gLKce8W.png

I skimmed through the dev's messages prior to that (not many) and couldn't find anything else related.

I believe "I made an announcement to poll people's reaction" is intentionally deceptive wording to imply they made a poll beforehand, but they're actually just referring to the release announcement. Same with "There were very little comments" which misses out the fact that all those comments were negative, and there were few comments primarily because it's a small unknown Discord server.

Let's be honest, even fewer would have reacted to some Github Discussion or Issue trying to discuss the object.

As I see it the dev asked the void and got no negative feedback.

Afterwards the void grew legs and started running after him