In the way that the livelihood and visibility of many devs is at risk with little time to react, if any?

If they had to consider every game that might come out they would never release.

That's not what I said. They don't have to consider "every game" but it definitely would have been nice to announce the date with a wide margin so everybody could have prepared better their release windows, promos, etc. This is not just a random game, it's the most wishlisted game in Steam

That's really not their responsibility at all

Sure buddy they are not obligated to anything, that doesn't mean they don't have a huge responsibility with the impact of their actions.

I think you're grossly overstating the impact this will have on a handful of indie games