Just like that. When people dared to ask whether they would deliver Breeze, Masternodes and Tumblebit in time, by the end of Q2, the cheer leaders where out in droves.
Until like 3 days before the end of the quarter, when it turned out they had nothing, not even a working alpha version.
Then a delay of 2-3 weeks was traded, and it still sounded like it would be the whole thing, until it turned out it was only a very basic testnet alpha and just the wallet, no Tumblebit, no Masternodes.
And there still isn't anything like a beta six weeks later.
Stop taking the piss.

When they started, Masternodes and anon was a big thing, which it isn't anymore. It may even become a felony to use stuff like that, under rising regulation. Vendors could be obliged to provide backdoors for law enforcement. This might not fit in with the delusional points of view of most of your team members and cheer leaders, but its the truth, and you better face it, since you were starting as a strictly commercial project. Bad decisions, kind of a failure, but Chris probably has no choice without losing his main poster boys.

In the meantime, scaling, contracts and side chains would be the burner, but hardly any news about that comes out.
You still try to push the fish story with the same bullshit tweets, but nobody seems to be interested.
And your academy. Academy for what? You ain't got nothing so far, but a QT wallet.

And then Microsoft. You were halfway pushing the narrative that MS could pick Stratis as their blockchain solution, with the C# conference and the proximity to MS MVPs, which in the meantime do not want to be brought into connection with your project anymore, as it seems.
They picked a far better way, sticking to their own architecture, enabling privacy on a completely new level. What Microsoft does is exactly what enterprise customers want. Keeping their shit on their own trusted infrastructure, not out in the great wide open, employing blockchains where it makes sense, with full control over encrypted data.