I admire people that have balls to take their time and enjoy life. Sometimes people get too deep into work and forget it's mostly a tool to live a better life, not its goal (at least it shouldn't, most of the time).

Personally, I think that he should have waited until the project was finished. To each their own.

Curse of modern day USA. Unless you’re born filthy rich, you’re doomed to have to spend pretty much 95% of your waking hours doing work, if you want to have all the ammenities that are required to enjoy life. That’s especially true for well paying jobs. 

He did... He left after it launched.

what if neil druckmann leaves after the last of us 2? maybe the guys who founded naughty dog return

I missed that part. I was skimming thru it.

So basically he left because the stress of taking one for the team was too much on him?