Why do people even bother trying to explain the obvious to UP, politely at that? Do you really think that he's not smart enough to figure it out by himself? Is Ironbite really the only one who has figured out what's going on here? Do I really have to do this myself?
UP is many things, but an idiot he isn't. He doesn't need to be told why a beta test is the perfect opportunity to give a creator feedback, and why said creator doesn't typically commit self-censorship by listening to and agreeing with said feedback. These are pretty much the definitions of "beta test" and "feedback". Getting those meanings from these words is pretty much immediate. It doesn't even need to "cross his mind". He doesn't even have to actively think about it.
And that's precisely the problem. He refuses to even consider those trivial matters when he has a political opinion to defend, in any context and at any cost of his own intellectual integrity. If you're lucky, he will vaguely admit that you may have a point and then proceed to ignore it completely. It doesn't really matter to him, because his entire MO is to twist the actual situation into an imaginary one where the obvious can be discarded and his prejudices can be vindicated.
Why not just pretend that gameplay and technical matters are the only ones relevant to discuss in the context of a video game, so that anyone who has an opinion that is liable to rattle you is automatically overstepping his boundaries by virtue of even holding said opinion in the first place?
Why not just pretend that one piece of feedback, given during a period dedicated to gathering feedback, by someone who has technically been offered early access to the game for the express purpose of feedback, can immediately constitute an amount of peer pressure tantamount to censorship?
Why not just pretend that an agressive victory pose is somehow out of character for the gentle scientist UNDER THE EFFECT OF A FRENZY-TYPE ABILITY THAT LITERALLY TURNS HIM RED (that was the "point" TB was trying to make behind his unfunny sexualisation jokes, right?), that this trope affects genetically-enhanced gorillas just as much as completely gratutitous eye-candy poses affects women, and that every comment about the quantity and quality of female representation is literally Anita Sarkeesian trying to take away our naughty vidya games?
Doublethink is doubleplusgood. And just to be clear, I'm not trying to compare any particular ideology to Ingsoc here. The one thing that I'm calling Orwellian is UP's very own, very personal dishonesty. And Total Bastard's, I guess, indirectly and to a lesser extent.