But not letting anyone know whether Gen 2 is on schedule or not... I do not see how that is defensible. Why should he not provide the information he has, and then provide updates if that information changes?
If he's got good news, I'd think he would share it. He was more talkative in the earlier days, which I really appreciated. I saw this pattern with Yifu... it's no guarantee of anything, but why the change?
I would say he has better things to do, and if you don't see how discretion is useful here, you should realise that this company is different to anything that has come before, and friedcat is writing the book on how to do it.