I understand the concern with the dying phone, but I’m not sure why people (this is the second post to do so) are concluding in late June that the phone won’t be ready until next year. They only changed their delivery date from July to Summer.
I think the concern is that like a lot of other projects that have been similar (kickstart usually) people have been burned. A release date becomes a release month, then a release year, then it just disappears. Luckily they didn't request money. Had they I wouldn't have "pre-ordered" it and would've just waited to see it in the wild.
While I agree