I completely agree with you.
Anyway, whatever would be said, then a lot of people here at TMO will stay unconvinced, forever dreaming about the alternative history and "what if... " blaming the market, corporations, hardware manufacturers, NSA etc. and of course "dumb" users that pick up other OSes instead of their unlike, beloved, best one. Let's agree there is some kind of (similar to religious) cult around Maemo, Meego and Sailfish.
The story is the same every time, a group of people, with limited resources despite all odds and giants (earlier Symbian, now Android and iOS) is doing a really interesting mobile Linux OS.
PS. Does the tablet have open bootloader? I remember it was hot topic for some of the people when crowdfunding campaign started.