At least he’s pretty based for someone in the niche of nerdy ass games. He said BLM during the 2020 protests and during the Palestinian protests in ‘21 he said Free Palestine, that US was backing an apartheid, and gave a bunch of resources to donate to Palestinians. Good guy and you should purchase his game because it’s pretty cool.
While DF is not my cup of tea (tried to get into it like three times and bounced away, maybe someday I'll learn to enjoy it) it is my go to example for how the "photorealistic graphics arms race" is holding games back.
The fact that that I could generate an entire world with absurd level of detail in a couple of minutes and explore it in my shitty laptop blew my mind the first time I saw it and it still blows my mind.