communications are a fundamental part of every project, their lack could diminish the trust of the community in the team and in the success of the project...
Indeed. I think its much wiser if they could change that attitude so that they could have more supporters as well. Without community, no project will ever succeed. Imho.
To be honest now there is a huge drop in people that are still involved in crypto and its logical supporters from different project is decreasing rapidly so it might be wise to use your budget for some other kind of promotion.