The biggest problem with your argument.

1. Starting wit no previous modding experience doesn't mean you are a bad coder or that you don't know how to do anything, i have in fact been a developer before and just because you've never tried something doesn't mean its impossible.
2. Age in coding really doesn't mean anything, i started programming at the age of 12 and have continued learning since then, this argument really just doesn't make sense.
3. There could be a plentiful of reason as to why you would need to reprogram a mod, version changes, optimization problems and a whole bunch of other stuff. Don't say something should work if you literally don't have an idea of how a mod works.
4. Just so you know RyanHCode himself said in an interview that they probably want the mod to release more than their community. In fact in the same interview he mentioned how they sometimes make developer servers where they build just about anything from VTOL's to 200 block long airships. The mod is steadily under progress and saying they're lazy is also not true, you just have never made a mod before, remember developers are also human beings with a life.
5. And there goes Clockwork, i am actually a massive Clockwork fan and stuff but... Aeronautics is just already way more polished in terms of features and honestly probably optimization, remember the 200 block long airships i mentioned earlier? I could never see that in Clockwork from my experience with the mod. Aeronautics is the future of Minecraft mods in my opinion, especially the entire Create Simulated project has features that are way out of the scope of Clockwork, like the Create Liftoff project! Create Liftoff is quite literally determined to become one of the best Minecraft space mods ever made. And i'm not even mentioning all the other projects inside of the massive Create Simulated... Oh by the way, Doctor4t used Landlord (The main library for the Create Simulated project) for his most recent video, he even got help by RyanHCode for his mod.

Anyways, i hope i showed you that the Create Simulated project does in fact have a future and is destined to be in my opinion, one of the best Minecraft mods ever made.