Great article! Even though Pete Hines superficially dismissed it as "nonsense," the fact that both current and former HH staffers retweeted it speaks volumes. Norm Nazaroff (Proletariat), Brian Karis (Epic), Ryan Smith (HH), Shane Newton (HH), Nathan Cheever (Hangar 13), Steven Dunn (HH).
Hines admission to Gamespot that he wants Human Head to do well and the faux-empathetic touch of calling to check on Chris Rhinehart's well-being is manipulative posturing and down-right cruel. In an earlier rebuttal to IGN's milestone story, he said similar things and implied that co-founders like Chris Rhinehart felt differently about the state of the game than those who contacted the press in the hopes of setting the story straight. I can assure you Chris Rhinehart thinks Prey 2 is and was an awesome game.
As an aside, while project lead on the first Prey, Chris took on the task of designing the portal system by himself and succeeded because he's a maverick talented programmer. On Prey 2, the co-founders (been together since the Hexen days) were still contributing to art, design, and programming. Their CEO, Paul MacArthur, was co-leading the tech with Brian Karis, James Sumwalt was in charge of art with Randy Redetzke and so on. Founders don't typically get their hands dirty with the day-to-day development duties.