I am not surprised by this announcement. I backed their kickstarter in 2018, thinking that I would receive it within a year. With that mindset, I got their software running on my desktop and started to contribute. I quickly realized that they did not want the community to participate in development of their core platform, as evidenced by the fact that it took them weeks to pull requests that fixed very basic bugs. In…
Speaking as a veteran embedded engineer, I think their biggest mistake was outsourcing the building of their hardware. At the very least, they probably would have saved money had they have hired an experienced in-house team.
Regardless, I think they should have focused solely on the software and enabled others to put the stack on custom hardware. I can’t imagine how much money they pissed away on the hardware, while the basic stack still needed gross improvement. They spread themselves too thin by being jacks-of-all-trades, so they were masters of none.