Many people feel this way honestly. He has come onto beyond bitcoin in the past to give updates but has seemed to not want to come on after funds for muse dried up. This was a big hit against confidence by a large segment of the community (as can be seen in the marketcap).

Now as i see it, either
A) Cob and team ran out of their 1.3? Million dollars because of traveling and being swindled by big players in the industry as they bumped around them talking about shaking the foundations of a paradigm on which they relied...and then were ashamed...kind of went into hiding and wanted no press coverage as licking wounds. Quitting the project but never responding in a way that made it seem so when approached directly.

B) A twist of A where he was slowly working behind the scenes after blowing through the money, but did everything on a shoestring budget afterwards, kept his head down, is finishing the job and about to shock us.

C) They had planned this in order to suppress price for a long period of time for some strategic reason

I wish i knew.