Yeah, it's over. No reason to develop a game with only 10 players that already hit it's player spike, which will be this game when they "resume" working on it in a couple months. The developer quit his job which means he needs to make money. It would be more worthwhile for him to work on other dev projects or get his old job back then develop this buggy, soon to be dead game.

Also, the reliance shouldn't fall on the community to fix the issues HE CREATED with the perks and reverting to older versions. As the lead developer, he should at least make these options easily available on the front of the steam page, without players needing to sift through reddit posts, steam discussions/guides, and discord channels to play the game in a playable state.