This reminds me of the scene in Bojack Horseman, where Bojack attempts to apologize to his former friend Herb, who he screwed over by not supporting when Herb was fired. Herb basically says that he didn't care about the job or the money, he did alright in the end. What he needed was a friend, and Bojack wasn't there. The point of this is not the money or the legal issues. The point was that Notch treated this guy as a friend right up to when it became about business. And it makes me a little sad to see people act as if the author is at fault for feeling hurt.