welllll....
I don't feel that the neo is actually responsible for the cyclic state..
It is just how the entirety of the situation has evolved ..with the project continuing so long with no definitive end in sight still.
And some may feel like (with the Jolla/youyota issue..) they refuse to be tricked again...and...well..I don't quite see..or rather I try not to see the bigger picture that way...I don't think of it as being "tricked" .
There was/is no forethought of ill intent at all by any project proclaimed in the forum..
But it is disheartening...
Even with os/device (partial) successes..everything is looking rosy and good...and then..instead of continuing refining and making better of so much work...
The os/device is abandoned by its creators for the next shiny thing that happens by.
THAT really is seriously disheartening and demoralizing..
especially after end user support, investment, and slowly or quickly beginning to wrap one's daily routine around a new learning curve...
then having the floor drop out from underneath oneself..
Not fun.
If anything would drive a soul to a walled garden...like android or iphone ...it is that.

And I concur ..what is in the offering today is not the standard the n900 set.
the future will tell whether the neo ...succeeding or failing .. has positive impacts that outweigh all the given negative ones that are accruing..
So far ..it isn't an overwhelming positive I see.
I see many including myself who are tired investors ...staring down a bottomless well of in-completion with no set timetable for finishing.