"the Neo900 is the only device that won't have hardware backdoors..."

Only one?
really now??

*cough*cough* Librem 5 *cough*cough*

the neo team could make that claim ...what? ...half a decade ago...
concerning a device yet to be produced and running...

But now...
Looks to me like the Librem 5 is not only going to steal that singular wonder of security and be shipping their devices by this January...
for less than a third the anticipated neo cost...
Actually...
How long ago did the Librem 5 project start?
anyone chime in with that date...
and they managed to complete it in how many years?...

while half a decade later the neo isn't past the freakin' schematics phase...

sure the Librem team had a lot more funds...
But the neo team had a huge head start...

and ok...the neo (if ever completed) will have a HWKB...
sure there is a plus...
Librem will have a display that is large enough to be VISIBLE...
there is a counter...

I have heard every argument there is...
for years and years I came back with good argument to those who posed THEIR arguments against the neo...to stay on board..

Now that so much time has elapsed..
the arguments against the neo are becoming so much greater...
so much more apparent...

that downplaying them isn't an option...
up selling isn't an option...
ignoring them isn't an option....
and in the face of all that ...
keeping up a continued silence for ...how many more years??
isn't an option.

I put a good chunk of money down.
and half a decade later...
I want to see ...before I die of old age...
either the finished product ..
or the principal refunded...
I don't give a royal fig for the interest...
consider it a donation...

I have a life to live...
and waiting around for this "unknown-production-date" (that IRC update comment steamed my butt!) device any longer ....
is most definitely not on my freakin' bucket-list.