I fucking love Gauntlet Dark Legacy, though if the Steam Deck is capable of Xbox emulation that’s my preferred version since you can save powerups for when you need them.
Buy the game, try it for 2 hours, don’t like it at its current price? Refund it. Pretty sure when you refund the game you can leave that feedback, dunno if devs would ever see it though.
Aftermath was started by a bunch of people that left or were fired by Kotaku to start with (I don’t remember which), so it makes sense they would hire others who came from a similar situation