Steam should have a hard policy of not allowing any game to be on EA for more than one year
Lets say they would ...
What would be your expectations from that?
I mean ... lets play a scenario. Swen thinked that a year would be fine ... so the game come to Early Acess on steam ... them global pandemic come, wich may seem like really old excuse but whether we like it or not, it existed and certainly affected this process. So year passed and end of EA is still not in sight ... what now?
An unexpected event is exactly that: unexpected. And in any such situation everyone makes adjustents, not just in this situation but in all situations everywhere.