No, it’s more like being a Rock Band, having 2 wildly successful albums then going in a another direction with a completely new, different sound for the third album, then wondering why no one bought it.
In the past an executive couldn’t really keep a pulse on the market themselves, they needed real world connections, they needed information that wasn’t just available at their fingertips and the only way to readily get it was relying on people under them to feed truthful and useful information and not just be ‘yes men’.
Information is readily available at their fingertips now though, there is no excuse for being so disconnected and out of touch.
Things that get removed by staff on nexusmods don’t show a ‘Not Found’ link or have the title renamed ‘DELETED’ - they generally show ‘removed by staff’ or ‘under moderation review since <date>’.
‘Not found’ is usually when the mod author unpublishes a mod.
This sounds like the typical mod drama, author has removed it for some reason and people are jumping to conclusions and/or the author is gaslighting people into the wrong conclusions.