When it comes to authentic project, what could make them deny their launch is because they're still working on the project and it isn't ready for the public yet. Now do understand Pi network doesn't fall under this classification as it's neither a authentic project or actually working on themselves. This is one of those ponzi like project that just survive on promotion and actually has nothing building on.

The officers active are only those promoting it for their selfish benefits. People are brainwashed to not call a project worthless because other worthless project has successfully gotten community support in the paste and gain momentum thereby making their earlier support good return of investment. Scammers are using that as leverage to make people keep participating in their scam.

The school of though here is they have nothing to lose since they're not investing their hard earn money and have all to gain if the network finally launches but they forget they're making use of the most valuable currency which is time and that is unrecoverable.