With this situation, the team should move quickly so as not to lose the trust of the community. With them continuing to answer like that, I'm sure more and more people will start leaving this project. Because after all the community is very important.
They have the right project but unable to sustain it, DAO is the next big thing now, I will not be surprised if other developers will copy this kind of project, the dev should continue their work, stop the pandemic thing alibi only weak projects do that when all the other projects and more projects coming in, there'ss no room for an alibi.