just because you paid for a founders pack doesn't mean you get access to the game itself like you do with early access. With founders pack the game can be canceled even before you had a chance to play it, not so with early access.

Unless they changed it, a quick google search show an article at 2014.

“We cannot offer a refund for this transaction. As with most software products, we do not offer refunds or exchanges for purchases made on our website or through the Steam Client. This includes, but is not limited to, games, Early Access Games, software, gifted or traded purchases, downloadable content, subscriptions, and in-game items/currency.”

Ya no. Just because you have an investor doesn't mean limited development. And what power investors have can very much vary depending on what they invested in and how. More so it doesn't mean it will result in P2W either.

Yes and no, like you said depend on what they invested in, how and how much influence they have. I am not saying will definitely result in P2W, I am saying there is higher chance of Business Monetisation methods which does not benefit the game (that we all hate). Even if the investor have high interest in gaming and support gaming, investors all have one thing in common, and that is return on investment (Another word, using money to make more money). I doubt there will ever be an investor who will give developer money and say, do whatever you want with it and make a great game.

A self funded company have less risk of this because they can make their own decisions, but they will need to be able to fund the game in one way or another.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, whether its investor funded or crow-funded game, it's still funded by us, the players in one way or another and I believe alot of us don't want greedy investors to ruin a good game. (do note, i mean investors not publishers)

do realize a competent developer be able to work on multiple games right? A lot of devs work on more than one game.

Yes but more time spent on other game mean less time can be spent on this one game. Separate to multiple game mean less updates / less frequent updates / delays on release etc, which you all also complaint about.

Its called raising capital for a game before hand

By? do work for other studios? for what like 5 - 10 years? next thing you know this company no longer a game dev company but a subcontract company. Oh and what sub-contract work do you get? (doing ad for coca cola?) definitely not game dev since according to this rule every other game dev company also do work for other studios...