You can stay mad at him if you want, but this is was a big blow to AI and I'm here for it.
He didn't have to drop it, but he did. A weaker man would have said "they're already mad at me, so I might as well go through with it".
He burnt a lot of bridges and lost a lot of good will, you may be inclined to clown on him, but I respect the man.
Jorge R. Gutierrez has announced he is dropping out of Amazon’s AI program and will no longer be making the animated series Punky Duck.
“I promise to do better moving forward. Thank you for your patience with me.”