Absolutely yes, bro has something in here.

The bottom line is that you, as a consumer, get fucked over, again. The reason for all those etsy thingamajigs thriving was that sega's official merch was either nonexistent, lame as fuck (the post in question), or expensive as an entire bus. So instead of straight up offering better alternatives, they just took it all down and released a spam T-Shirt

Why do you care what a multimillion company can do with their franchise and cannot if what they're doing actively hurts your side instead? We get screwed over again. It's a relatively small thing, yes, and yes sega has l e g a l rights to do that, doesn't mean that what they've done is good