Ark developer already made a nice Ark desktop wallet and Android wallet too. Lisk do not even have Android wallet yet. Ark is already done more before ICO was over than Lisk do with 9 months time.
I'm on the right boat

Sure, there has been a lot of work done already. A lot of us contributed funds out of pocket so fixcypt can disengage from other paying jobs and focus all his attention on ARK. I think it's been more than two months now, we didn't want to delay development until we have access to TEC funds.