I agree they launched, but they were already long delayed, and this project is now from 2017, so its 5 years, I think they found a new finance source in late 2020, and rushed to main-net. The entire issue is the coin was pre-sold in CHINA as an IOU on chinese exchanges where it went from zero to $1600, before it was even launched ( may 5, 2021 )
You and no one will complain if $XCH has a price less than $1. Complains and FUDs are abundant because $XCH price is more than $1600.
Have you ever heard of Dfinity project that delayed their airdrop distributions for years. Weeks ago,
Internet Computer (ICP) appeared on coinmarketcap with value is above $600.
Life is never fair for all. Follow whales and get money. Just don't join the party too late.
CHIA-DEV doesn't even support pools, yet the chinese exchanges running the IOU scam, manage to cobble together real life chia-pools months ago.
Why developers have to support or own a mining pool?
Well to give you an example on BITCOIN there is a call called GetTemplate(), and that's how the miners construct a new block to be mined, the pools could start a block without dev providing this linkage, in the case of CHIA, the dev neglected to implement this code,