I mean. If you want to call it a scam, by all means just don't participate. Noone is forcing you to. The community will not be restarting the chain as that would be unfair to those early miners who have invested equipment, time, and money into running servers and infrastructure.

Noone owes you a post on this forum. This forum is also not the project's primary demographic, especially not someone like yourself who could not be inconvenienced enough to learn more about the project before speaking. Just because a project isn't marketed to you early on, doesn't make it a scam.

Restarting the chain now would not make it much easier for anyone as all miners are still running there own models and will be ranked the same based on reliability and usefulness to the network.

Also, to reiterate, the number of tao currently minted is less than the number of Bitcoin minted in the first year, even though the project has been running since January, 2021, before the switch, and Nov, 2021 after. You could be just as competitive as basically any other miner, but if you're not willing to invest time in learning the machine learning fundamentals, then just having the hardware doesn't cut it as it would for a POW coin, like you're probably used to.