I agree. Frustrating to say the least. I also feel that it's a bit of a cop out to use stuff like "we didn't know where to go...now we do" as that is never known in any project one embark upon.
There is absolutely nothing to say that something won't come up in a few months time that will create a new project reset and that the future NOW is known.

I feel somewhat awkward 'blaming' anyone in a situation like this as it's community driven/run (unless stskeepes is getting paid by Nokia?) and I have no means of contributing to the effort (not a developer) apart from testing stuff. Anyway, I do feel strongly that to me, and possibly to others who have followed the Mer, Mer2, MeeGo threads, that this was an absolutely horrendous project management effort where expectations were not set correctly and where paths were gone done [too publicly] before they were more investigated. And maybe Stskeepes did the right 'things' but it does seem as they were done with poor planning, poor management and lousy support [or too few requests?] from Nokia.