Maybe my references are skewed, but I remember Minecraft's alpha was $5, beta was $10, and the full release I think was $20 or something. Which both seemed really fair price-wise but also made sense as to making buying a game early appealing because you're paying less for it; it's not an act of charity to buy a game in early access. Now they seem to be charging full price and are basically going "uwu, i'm a smol indie-dev" and asking for people to donate money and faith to someone they don't know because they're petit-bourgeois.