It usually surprise me when I see investors complaining about a good project that didn't increase or providing returns immediately it got listed on the exchange and they term it scam or say different things like rekted.
But the truth is, are these investors investing in the project because they believe in it or are they just in it for the immediate profit and move on? Because if you are investing in a project because you believe in it then you should be willing to HODL the tokens and wait for the team to gradually deliver the project and meet its necessary roadmap before you judge it and not condemn it on its first listing.
You are saying everything correctly, but the community has simply been deceived many times and therefore many investors do not believe in the success of the project if their tokens need to be held for too long.
Yes. ICO projects are very different nowadays since most of them have already end up being scams. So we cannot blame those investors who are becoming impatient once their tokens will not be released in the promised date because chances are they were fooled again. Although there are still good projects that are paying well today but we cannot deny too that scam projects are also becoming rampant these days.