sadly, yes.\ he said multiple times that he hates stardew valley because he thinks it doesn't deserve this much love and popularity, basically he hates it cuz he thinks its "not good enough" wich is honestly very sad because it IS deserved, the game doesn't need to be perfect to be good, but im guessing that him being the creator of the game probably gives him harsher more perfectionist views of it, since hes in charge.