You've found your one note that you're sticking to regardless... guess you've found purpose behind that word and think it's applicable here. It's not. Failure is the operative word here...

Failure to communicate clearly. Failure to deliver devices en masse to backers. Failure to explain all of the obstacles and hurdles due to systems not really being built, nor plans made in case of failure to deliver. Worse of all... failure to cap such nonsense but allowing it to continue when more precise words exist to explain what's going on.

I've no clue how else to state this; perhaps my last time addressing it - I can't repeat myself ad nauseum without losing some civil decorum.

Folks are receiving their tablets through some rather odd methods, but they're getting them. Often with Sailfish OS still installed. Their input has been coming in more and more recently and it's actually pretty cool to see that all are saying one continued thought - shame that all didn't get one.