It's interesting really...
I mean...
You look at the big boys [WP, iphone, android]...
and They do as they wish as long as [bottom line] they produce [relatively] affordable product and service appeasing their investors, the markets and lastly what they spoonfeed the consumer [I say lastly because in the scheme of things at their level..the consumer is last to appease]
Whereas...
Due to the cost for alternative devices..
the consumer takes on a more hefty weight...
the consumer bears a greater deal of the brunt of cost...
it then is more an investment not only of more money ...but of time as well..
An alternative failing means time lost...and personal monies...
Thus the end-users for Jolla "are" more in line with an investor's stake.
A veritable reversal of the normal company-consumer dynamic.
Ergo...it makes complete sense to me that the end users wish, ask, worry, and demand clarity, communication and real conversation with the alternative parent company as to "how things are going, is everything rolling along smoothly, and how is my monetary/time investment paying off"...
So I don't personally see people speculating here or elsewhere as a negative in any way...
Rather the opposite..I understand what those asking, postulating, inquiring, worrying and expressing themselves as culminating in an expressive need of the invested end user trying to find consolation and affirmation that their investment is doing well.

Perhaps the obstacle lies in the fact that alternative endeavours try to run according to what all the other company herd animals are doing...and using the same blueprints of approach that the corp. giants use ...
which cannot work until the alt. endeavour reaches the same plateau of control of it's structure....
To put it succinctly ...
the alt. endeavour's got prob's..