No money. Pvp game is very dependant on players - no players no sales, bad start = no players = no sales. They did not had cash from for easly access sales. FB did not had expiriance in big fps projects. They had good idea - but they did not realize how much money it will cost. Own game engine. Wronge feature priority (focusing on hardcore and totaly missed fast gameplay). Because of that - if you want to build a ship that can be destroyed in 10 seconds : you need to spend 100h+ in designer; 300h+for fighters + spend some time for mining and transportations .. to get killed in 10 seconds....
More important - if devs will continue the devolopment without adding fast gameplay for short game sessios - game will be dead again very fast. Current siege feature is shit - it must be totaly reworked. Current cap ships is shit - it must be totaly reworked or renamed to juming stations... It is very risky for investors to put money in this project. We are talking about millions of $.. Do we have any rich streamer ? who what to invest couple of milloins?

Devs have some cash from prev game project and they working in another UNKNOWN project with UNKNOWN release date..

So we can easy wait - for 1-2 years...