I find it strange that people who have been into gaming for as long as the average user here would be asking 'why drama'. Drama runs this shit and has since the Atari days. There were likely two assholes arguing over how Tennis for Two was bullshit and that one intern was a fucking cheater while performing oscilloscope maintenance.
In this case, the vitriol is because the names SoCalMike and Tommy Talarico are at the top of the project list. Two clowns with a hiking trails length worth of failed projects and all the charisma of a Trump statue made from wet socks. This was doomed right out the gate and literally anyone with adult level object permeance knew that from word damn one. I get that folks like to jerk them off around here, but times come to call an apple an apple.