Unfortunately, missing a deadline with no warning does more damage to your reputation than delivering on schedule a few times.
This is why you want to provide warning at the soonest moment you see you might miss it. It's to *your* benefit to do so.
If you miss a deadline by surprise, no matter what you say, many will see it as excuses. It's not necessarily fair, but it's how it is.
Again, it's to *your* benefit to provide early warning.
Agreed. And according to the charts there were well over 2m coins dumped from 1800 to 1300 (or in that range) well before the delay was announced. That's what is fishy to many people including myself. Hard not to call insider trading.
And I am a believer in this team and believe MsCollec as a very good dev, but this situation couldve been handled better. If a team member got sick, notify the community beforehand, unless he/she literally got sick an hour before everything was about to be finished and released, which still sounds iffy. In any case hope he/she feels better.